Applications of artificial intelligence for disaster management

W Sun, P Bocchini, BD Davison - Natural Hazards, 2020 - Springer
Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Motion planning for mobile robots—Focusing on deep reinforcement learning: A systematic review

H Sun, W Zhang, R Yu, Y Zhang - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile robots contributed significantly to the intelligent development of human society, and
the motion-planning policy is critical for mobile robots. This paper reviews the methods …

Deep reinforcement learning robot for search and rescue applications: Exploration in unknown cluttered environments

F Niroui, K Zhang, Z Kashino… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rescue robots can be used in urban search and rescue (USAR) applications to perform the
important task of exploring unknown cluttered environments. Due to the unpredictable …

Edge technologies for disaster management: A survey of social media and artificial intelligence integration

M Aboualola, K Abualsaud, T Khattab, N Zorba… - IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the paradigm of smart cities, smart devices can be considered as a tool to enhance
safety. Edge sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, social media analytics, edge …

Learning-based methods of perception and navigation for ground vehicles in unstructured environments: A review

DC Guastella, G Muscato - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The problem of autonomous navigation of a ground vehicle in unstructured environments is
both challenging and crucial for the deployment of this type of vehicle in real-world …

A sim-to-real pipeline for deep reinforcement learning for autonomous robot navigation in cluttered rough terrain

H Hu, K Zhang, AH Tan, M Ruan… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots that autonomously navigate real-world 3D cluttered environments need to safely
traverse terrain with abrupt changes in surface normals and elevations. In this letter, we …

Deep reinforcement learning for safe local planning of a ground vehicle in unknown rough terrain

S Josef, A Degani - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Safe unmanned ground vehicle navigation in unknown rough terrain is crucial for various
tasks such as exploration, search and rescue and agriculture. Offline global planning is often …

Terp: Reliable planning in uneven outdoor environments using deep reinforcement learning

K Weerakoon, AJ Sathyamoorthy… - … on Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a novel method for reliable robot navigation in uneven outdoor terrains. Our
approach employs a fully-trained Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) network that uses …

A survey of traversability estimation for mobile robots

C Sevastopoulos, S Konstantopoulos - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traversability illustrates the difficulty of driving through a specific region and encompasses
the suitability of the terrain for traverse based on its physical properties, such as slope and …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive survey of unmanned ground vehicle terrain traversability for unstructured environments and sensor technology insights

S Beycimen, D Ignatyev, A Zolotas - Engineering Science and Technology …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article provides a detailed analysis of the assessment of unmanned ground vehicle
terrain traversability. The analysis is categorized into terrain classification, terrain mapping …