Integrated Wi-Fi and LoRa network on UAVs for localizing people during SAR operations

A Calabrò, R Giuliano - 2021 AEIT International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In distress and crisis situations, the way how the rescuers answer is extremely important and
critical. Rapidity on which Search and Rescue (SAR) operations are deployed and executed …

Automatic air-to-ground recognition of outdoor injured human targets based on UAV bimodal information: the explore study

F Qi, M Zhu, Z Li, T Lei, J Xia, L Zhang, Y Yan, J Wang… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rapid air-to-ground search of injured people in the outdoor environment has been a hot
spot and a great challenge for public safety and emergency rescue medicine. Its crucial …

Collaboration of thermal sensors and drones in fighting wildfires; Mathematical model and heuristic approach

M Momeni, SMJM Al-e - Internet of Things, 2024 - Elsevier
The forest temperature is monitored utilizing thermal sensors. In the event of a temperature
increase, these sensors promptly notify firefighters, enabling timely intervention against fires …

Sensor-Driven Human-Robot Synergy: A Systems Engineering Approach

N Tsolakis, A Gasteratos - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Knowledge-based synergistic automation is a potential intermediate option between the
opposite extremes of manual and fully automated robotic labor in agriculture. Disruptive …

Preliminary evaluation of TinyYOLO on a new dataset for search-and-rescue with drones

G Castellano, C Castiello, C Mencar… - 2020 7th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, are increasingly used
as a technological support tool for search-and-rescue (SAR) operations and also for post …

Detection and localisation of life signs from the air using image registration and spatio-temporal filtering

AG Perera, FTZ Khanam, A Al-Naji, J Chahl - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In search and rescue operations, it is crucial to rapidly identify those people who are alive
from those who are not. If this information is known, emergency teams can prioritize their …

Vision-based learning for drones: A survey

J Xiao, R Zhang, Y Zhang, M Feroskhan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05019, 2023 - arxiv.org
Drones as advanced cyber-physical systems are undergoing a transformative shift with the
advent of vision-based learning, a field that is rapidly gaining prominence due to its …

Person detection in drone imagery

S Sambolek, M Ivasic-Kos - 2020 5th International Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of drones in search and rescue operations has become standard almost
everywhere in the world. A special challenge in the search and rescue operation is the …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking YOLOv5 models for improved human detection in search and rescue missions

N Bachir, QA Memon - Journal of Electronic Science and Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has undergone significant changes.
The technology allows a UAV to carry out a wide range of tasks with an increasing level of …

Embedded light-weight approach for safe landing in populated areas

T Mitroudas, V Balaska, A Psomoulis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Landing safety is a challenge heavily engaging the research community recently, due to the
increasing interest in applications availed by aerial vehicles. In this paper, we propose a …