Unmanned aerial vehicle for hot-spot avoidance with stereo FLIR cameras

Review: Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as Mobile Sensing Platforms (MSPs) for Disaster Response, Civil Security and Public Safety

“…However, the vast majority of active contributions to civil defence and public safety operations is found in the use of on-board processing capabilities that allow a device to process (or at least pre-process) data collected from the sensing applications. This can range from aggregating data for e.g., damage assessment [68] or to provide public safety on beaches [71,95] or ports [71] to interpreting this data to e.g., support civil defence teams on the ground [96,97], locate victims [83] or assess damage [68]. Most of these actuation tasks are described as high-level services.…”

“…UAVs have been used to support patrolling [70,88] (e.g., border patrol [34,53], coast patrol [95] and even indoor patrol [99]), to inform situational awareness [33,65,81,88,96,97], for costal management [68], in the context of terrain survey and mapping [90] and, generally, for data collection [89].…”

“…In the context of civil defence and public safety, when operations are ongoing, mobile sensing platforms and multi-agent swarms have been used to support civil defence teams on the ground [96,97], to provide emergency assistance [34] and to assist in search and rescue operation [66]. UAVs are used in fire fighting [80] (e.g., heat source detection [96,97]), to locate victims [83] but also for the protection of personal [69]. Notable examples of the latter are the detection of radiation [100], the monitoring of forest-or wildfire [53,78] and to assist with evacuation [73,100].…”

“…In the context of providing services UAVs increasingly provide on-board decision making capabilities [66] through sometimes significant embedded processing power [91], making it possible to use them for complex operations such as e.g., the inspection of urban structure (such as bridges) [94] or to create 3D models of urban locations [65] and in environments where the connectivity is limited. In the context of hazardous operations, UAVs have the advantage of being expendable (i.e., not humans) [88] and have been used to assist human personnel on the ground [65,96,97].…”

Post‐disaster assessment with unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey on practical implementations and research approaches

“…The obstacle avoidance behavior is achieved by choosing a direction within the free angular sectors, using a cost function taking into account the orientation of the robot and the goal . The approach has been originally conceived for ground robots in the 2D space, but it has been recently applied also to UAV navigation in 3D space …”