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 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 …

This article describes the artificial intelligence (AI) component of a drone for monitoring and
patrolling tasks associated with disaster relief missions in specific restricted disaster …

The concept of surveillance drones arises to aid the problem of tracking humans quickly
without risking more human lives in desperate times like disasters or terrorist attacks. The …

The large scale natural disasters often result in a large death victim number and severe
damage to buildings. Although some of the impacts can be reduced by the foreseeable …

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

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 …

The increasing number and severity of natural hazard events in recent years, and their
devastating impact on human life, local economies, and the built environment has called …

In this paper we present SWIFTERS, a technology platform for utilising multiple UAVs in
disaster management. The platform aims to provide fast situational awareness and improve …