Natural disastrous events are part and parcel of our times and do occur when we least
expect it to strike us. Disasters which take place in the vicinity of human livelihood due to …

This paper explores the design of a high-level mission planner and controller for managing
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fighting a wildfire through the utilization of reactive …

The significant increase in large-scale wildfire events in recent decades, caused primarily by
climate change, has resulted in a growing number of aerial resources being used in …

To transition from control theory to real applications, it is important to study missions such as
Swarm Search and Service (SSS) where vehicles are not only required to search an area …

To find failure events and their likelihoods in flight-critical systems, we investigate the use of
an advanced black-box stress testing approach called adaptive stress testing. We analyze a …

Recent wildfires in the United States have resulted in loss of life and billions of dollars,
destroying countless structures and forests. Fighting wildfires is extremely complex. It is …

Due to the complexity of the areas and the diversity of the objects, traditional Burned Area
Mapping (BAM) methods cannot provide promising results. Moreover, these methods focus …

Birth and death Markov processes can model stochastic physical systems from percolation
to disease spread and, in particular, wildfires. We introduce and analyze a birth-death …

The integration of manned and unmanned aircraft can help improve wildfire response.
Wildfire containment failures occur when the resources available to first responders, who …

Wildfire incidents are catastrophic events with a high level of uncertainty. Therefore,
resource allocation towards its suppression is a challenging task. Our research presents a …