Wireless technologies to assist search and localization of victims of wide-scale natural disasters by unmanned aerial vehicles

T Kobayashi, S Seimiya, K Harada… - 2017 20th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When natural disasters are occurred, a lot of injured victims should be found and have
medical treatment as soon as possible. However, looking for the victims is not easy due to …

4G UAV communication system and hovering height optimization for public safety

C Ting, X Yun, Z Xiangmo, G Tao… - 2017 IEEE 19th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When facing with sudden terrorist attacks or natural disasters, in order to avoid the paralysis
of communication networks caused by the destruction of partial ordinary 4G cellular base …

Quadcopter based technology for an emergency healthcare

AJA Dhivya, J Premkumar - 2017 Third International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several thousands of people die day to day due to the time lag taken by the Ambulance
service to reach the accident spot. This happens due to traffic jam, congestion in the city. A …

A brief review on the positioning technologies for unmanned aerial vehicles

J Hu, Z Zhang, C Zhao, D Wang, B Fan… - 2017 IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The research of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is outburst in several areas, which has
shown a great potential as a low-cost, flexible and reliable platform, and the positioning is …

Shipwrecked victims localization and tracking using uavs

I Nasr, M Chekir, H Besbes - 2019 15th International Wireless …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) can be considered as an efficient wireless communication
alternative in regions where the terrestrial infrastructure is absent. In this paper we propose …

A nano-quadcopter formation flight system based on UWB indoor positioning technology

Z Shi, H Li, H Lin, L Huang - 2018 13th International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research activities in the formation flight of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have
increased substantially in the last few years. The UAVs formation flight performance, such as …

A uwb navigation system aided by sensor-based autonomous algorithm-deployment and experiment in shopping mall

T Kagawa, HB Li, R Miura - 2014 International Symposium on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demands for indoor-localization or indoor-navigation are increasing in many fields such as
a marketing, shopping related industries, and anticrime application. At present, many types …

Vehicle location estimation based on 79GHz UWB radar employing road objects

K Uchiyama, A Kajiwara - 2016 International Conference on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a vehicle location estimation based on 79GHz ultra-wideband (UWB)
radar, which utilizes various road objects around car. Lane-keeping-assist system with …

Krypto: assisting search and rescue operations using Wi-Fi signal with UAV

YH Ho, YR Chen, LJ Chen - Proceedings of the first workshop on micro …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Natural disasters affect thousands of people every year. In a large disaster area, search and
rescue operations can face great difficulties to locate victims. In this paper, we propose a …

An optimized UAV trajectory planning for localization in disaster scenarios

F Demiane, S Sharafeddine, O Farhat - Computer networks, 2020 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered one of the most promising emerging
technologies to support rescue teams in disaster management and relief operations …