Information plays a key role to correctly handle consequences resulting from natural
disasters. Discharging rescue teams from gathering that information, and automatically …

Information plays a key role in crisis management and relief efforts for natural disaster
scenarios. Given their flight properties, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) provide new and …

This paper proposes a drone based solution to help on the search and rescue activities over
disaster scenarios. The proposed architecture is composed of specialized drones to …

In the aftermath of a disaster it is common to see Search and Rescue teams struggle to get to
affected areas due to damage to existing lines of access and the lack of accurate maps that …

Natural disasters are increasingly common as climate change becomes more severe.
Search and rescue operations become more and more important to societies worldwide …

Information plays a key role in natural disaster crisis management and relief. We discussed
in previous contributions how lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or (micro-) …

Natural calamities have recently opened their doors to disasters which in turn have affected
various regions of the world. Disasters serve as an eye-opener as they are unstoppable and …

In this work, we report our solutions to the problems given in the 2014 International Micro
Aerial Vehicle Competition, held in Delft, the Netherlands, August 2014, which involves …

Robot-assisted natural disaster management is recently employed to aid human rescuers at
diverse disaster sites. Due to its compactness and availability, drone has become an …

In this paper, we consider the problem of completely flying over an area just hit by an
earthquake with a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to opportunely direct rescue …