Wildfire remote sensing with UAVs: A review from the autonomy point of view

Bailon-Ruiz, Rafael; Lacroix, Simon

doi:10.1109/icuas48674.2020.9213986

Cited by 37 publications

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“…UAVs can also be used for surveillance applications, including border surveillance, as they provide much broader coverage than available approaches for border surveillance. Environmental protection using UAVs, such as tracking wildfire, monitoring climate change, and the investigation of natural disasters, has increased due to the ease of implementing UAVs with various sensors such as cameras, thermal cameras, temperature sensors, and chemical sensors [116].…”

Section: Remote Sensingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Detailed Survey and Future Directions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Potential Applications

2021

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Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained widespread interest in civilian and military applications, which has led to the development of novel UAVs that can perform various operations. UAVs are aircraft that can fly without the need of a human pilot onboard, meaning they can fly either autonomously or be remotely piloted. They can be equipped with multiple sensors, including cameras, inertial measurement units (IMUs), LiDAR, and GPS, to collect and transmit data in real time. Due to the demand for UAVs in various applications such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, wireless communications, and surveillance, several types of UAVs have been invented with different specifications for their size, weight, range and endurance, engine type, and configuration. Because of this variety, the design process and analysis are based on the type of UAV, with the availability of several control techniques that could be used to improve the flight of the UAV in order to avoid obstacles and potential collisions, as well as find the shortest path to save the battery life with the support of optimization techniques. However, UAVs face several challenges in order to fly smoothly, including collision avoidance, battery life, and intruders. This review paper presents UAVs’ classification, control applications, and future directions in industry and research interest. For the design process, fabrication, and analysis, various control approaches are discussed in detail. Furthermore, the challenges for UAVs, including battery charging, collision avoidance, and security, are also presented and discussed.

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Section: Remote Sensingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Detailed Survey and Future Directions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Potential Applications

2021

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“…Reference [17] states that this application is an active field of research with numerous experiments already performed, but with plenty of room for improvement before it can be considered sufficiently mature-especially regarding fire detection algorithms, integration, and testing under realistic conditions. The authors of [18] emphasized increased autonomy as a key enabler for this use case.…”

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“…Continuous coverage of an area enables the detection of irregularities such as developing fires or unauthorized intruders (e.g., via machine learning techniques). Since the long mission times render the employment of human pilots impractical, a cost-efficient solution to a Monitoring problem requires a substantial degree of autonomy and robustness [17,18] through capabilities such as automated recharging, fault tolerance, self-diagnosis, and more.…”

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Maturity Levels of Public Safety Applications using Unmanned Aerial Systems: a Review

Stampa

Sutorma

Jahn

et al. 2021

J Intell Robot Syst

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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are becoming increasingly popular in the public safety sector. While some applications have so far only been envisioned, others are regularly performed in real-life scenarios. Many more fall in between and are actively investigated by research and commercial communities alike. This study reviews the maturity levels, or “market-readiness”, of public safety applications for UAS. As individual assessments of all applications suggested in the literature are infeasible due to their sheer number, we propose a novel set of application categories: Remote Sensing, Mapping, Monitoring, Human-drone Interaction, Flying Ad-hoc Networks, Transportation, and Counter UAV Systems. Each category’s maturity is assessed through a literature review of contained applications, using the metric of Application Readiness Levels (ARLs). Relevant aspects such as the environmental complexity and available mission time of addressed scenarios are taken into account. Following the analysis, we infer that improvements in autonomy and software reliability are the most promising research areas for increasing the usefulness and acceptance of UAS in the public safety domain.

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“…Cooperative monitoring and detection of forest and wildfires with autonomous teams of UAVs [5] or UGVs [6] gained significant attention in recent years [7]. While UGVs can carry larger amounts of extinguishing agents or drag a fire hose [8], payload limitations impede the utility of UAVs.…”

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Autonomous Fire Fighting with a UAV-UGV Team at MBZIRC 2020

Quenzel¹,

Splietker²,

Pavlichenko³

et al. 2021

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Every day, burning buildings threaten the lives of occupants and first responders trying to save them. Quick action is of essence, but some areas might not be accessible or too dangerous to enter. Robotic systems have become a promising addition to firefighting, but at this stage, they are mostly manually controlled, which is error-prone and requires specially trained personal.We present two systems for autonomous firefighting from air and ground we developed for the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2020. The systems use LiDAR for reliable localization within narrow, potentially GNSS-restricted environments while maneuvering close to obstacles. Measurements from LiDAR and thermal cameras are fused to track fires, while relative navigation ensures successful extinguishing.We analyze and discuss our successful participation during the MBZIRC 2020, present further experiments, and provide insights into our lessons learned from the competition. * : equal contribution.

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Wildfire remote sensing with UAVs: A review from the autonomy point of view

Cited by 37 publications

References 33 publications

A Detailed Survey and Future Directions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Potential Applications

A Detailed Survey and Future Directions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with Potential Applications

Maturity Levels of Public Safety Applications using Unmanned Aerial Systems: a Review

Autonomous Fire Fighting with a UAV-UGV Team at MBZIRC 2020

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