Visual-based person detection for search-and-rescue with uas: Humans vs. machine learning algorithm

S Gotovac, D Zelenika, Ž Marušić, D Božić-Štulić - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) have been recognized as an important resource in
search-and-rescue (SAR) missions and, as such, have been used by the Croatian Mountain …

Depth-based deep learning for manhole detection in uav navigation

RE Andersen, M Zajaczkowski… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones navigating in dark, GPS-denied and confined spaces can pose a difficult challenge
due to, among other, the processing power required to maintain a high resolution map of the …

Safe UAV landing: A low-complexity pipeline for surface conditions recognition

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Taitzoglou… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigates autonomously, there are unanticipated
occasions, eg, loss of data provided by the global navigation satellite system, where its …

Human detection and action recognition for search and rescue in disasters using yolov3 algorithm

B Valarmathi, J Kshitij, R Dimple… - Journal of Electrical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drone examination has been overall quickly embraced by NDMM (natural disaster
mitigation and management) division to survey the state of impacted regions. Manual video …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing Operational Resiliency of UAV Swarms: An Agent-Focused Search and Rescue Framework

A Phadke, FA Medrano - Aerospace Research …, 2024 - frontierspartnerships.org
Resilient UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) swarm operations are a complex research topic
where the dynamic environments in which they work significantly increase the chance of …

Reliable long-range multi-link communication for unmanned search and rescue aircraft systems in beyond visual line of sight operation

J Güldenring, P Gorczak, F Eckermann, M Patchou… - Drones, 2020 - mdpi.com
With the increasing availability of unmanned aircraft systems, their usage for search and
rescue is close at hand. Especially in the maritime context, aerial support can yield …

Hmaac: Hierarchical multi-agent actor-critic for aerial search with explicit coordination modeling

C Sun, S Huang, D Pompili - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become prevalent in Search-And-Rescue (SAR)
missions. However, existing solutions to the control and coordination of UAV s are mostly …

The MPU RX-4 project: Design, electronics, and software development of a geofence protection system for a fixed-wing vtol uav

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Taitzoglou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are at the forefront of this century's technological shift,
becoming ubiquitous in research and market areas. However, as a UAV navigates …

Using affect as a communication modality to improve human-robot communication in robot-assisted search and rescue scenarios

SA Akgun, M Ghafurian, M Crowley… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emotions can provide a natural communication modality to complement the existing multi-
modal capabilities of social robots, such as text and speech, in many domains. We …

Diminishing domain bias by leveraging domain labels in object detection on uavs

B Kiefer, M Messmer, A Zell - 2021 20th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Object detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is of great importance in many
aerial vision-based applications. Despite the great success of generic object detection …