In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained popularity due to their
flexibility, mobility, and accessibility in various fields, including search and rescue (SAR) …

Sensors have been an essential element in many devices, applications, and technologies,
so they were exploited for a very important goal, which is disaster management. Due to the …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are of crucial importance in search and rescue
missions in maritime environments due to their flexible and fast operation capabilities …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) constitute the key enabler for programmable
electromagnetic propagation environments and are lately being considered as a candidate …

Crowdsourced localization plays a significant role for the applications in Internet of Things.
Even though existing studies have proposed privacy-preserving localization algorithms to …

When a natural or human disaster occurs, time is critical and often of vital importance. Data
from the incident area containing the information to guide search and rescue (SAR) …

Safety is crucial for autonomous drones to operate close to humans. Besides avoiding
unwanted or harmful contact, people should also perceive the drone as safe. Existing safe …

Natural and human-made disasters have dramatically increased in recent decades. Given
the strong relationship between first responders' localization time and the final number of …

Next generation mobile networks need to expand towards uncharted territories in order to
enable the digital transformation of society. In this context, aerial devices such as unmanned …

In this paper, we consider the problem of completely flying over an area just hit by an
earthquake with a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to opportunely direct rescue …