Using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as mobile sensing platforms (MSPs) for disaster response, civil security and public safety

H Hildmann, E Kovacs - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
The use of UAVs in areas ranging from agriculture over urban services to entertainment or
simply as a hobby has rapidly grown over the last years. Regarding serious/commercial …

Remote sensing of river corridors: A review of current trends and future directions

C Tomsett, J Leyland - River Research and Applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
River corridors play a crucial environmental, economic, and societal role yet also represent
one of the world's most dangerous natural hazards, making monitoring imperative to …

Monitoring and cordoning wildfires with an autonomous swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles

F Saffre, H Hildmann, H Karvonen, T Lind - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, are already an integral part of the equipment used by
firefighters to monitor wildfires. They are, however, still typically used only as remotely …

HiveMind: A hardware-software system stack for serverless edge swarms

L Patterson, D Pigorovsky, B Dempsey… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Swarms of autonomous devices are increasing in ubiquity and size, making the need for
rethinking their hardware-software system stack critical. We present HiveMind, the first …

Autonomous aerial swarming in gnss-denied environments with high obstacle density

A Ahmad, V Walter, P Petráček, M Petrlík… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The compact flocking of relatively localized Un-manned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in high
obstacle density areas is discussed in this paper. The presented work tackles realistic …

Nature-inspired drone swarming for real-time aerial data-collection under dynamic operational constraints

H Hildmann, E Kovacs, F Saffre, AF Isakovic - Drones, 2019 - mdpi.com
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with acceptable performance are becoming
commercially available at an affordable cost. Due to this, the use of drones for real-time data …

Review of reliability assessment methods of drone swarm (fleet) and a new importance evaluation based method of drone swarm structure analysis

E Zaitseva, V Levashenko, R Mukhamediev, N Brinzei… - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drones, or UAVs, are developed very intensively. There are many effective applications of
drones for problems of monitoring, searching, detection, communication, delivery, and …

Self-swarming for multi-robot systems deployed for situational awareness

F Saffre, H Hildmann, H Karvonen, T Lind - New Developments and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Machine-based situational awareness is a key element to conscious and intelligent
interaction with the complex world we live in, be it for the individual unit, a complex …

Hivemind: A scalable and serverless coordination control platform for uav swarms

J Hu, A Bruno, B Ritchken, B Jackson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Swarms of autonomous devices are increasing in ubiquity and size. There are two main
trains of thought for controlling devices in such swarms; centralized and distributed control …

A hardware-software stack for serverless edge swarms

L Patterson, D Pigorovsky, B Dempsey… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Swarms of autonomous devices are increasing in ubiquity and size, making the need for
rethinking their hardware-software system stack critical. We present HiveMind, the first …