Autonomous public transportation system

Abstract

Disaster management has become a research area in its own right, with few reported cases of successful installation of robots in real disaster areas. Most of these disasters are using air, ground, or underwater platforms. However, studies involving private boats or Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV’s) for Disaster Management (DM) are presently being distributed in many publications, of varying depths, and focuses mainly on single-seat vehicles - usually under the banned Ocean umbrella. Therefore, the current value of USVs in the DM process at its different stages is unclear. This paper presents the first comprehensive study on the use of USV DMs, as far as we know. This work shows that with few current issues in disaster situations, most research in the area focuses on USV Hardware and software platforms, such as Guidance Navigation and Control, do not focus on their actual DM value. Finally, to guide future researches, this paper also summarizes our contributions towards it, the lessons learned by everyone, the guidelines made by us, and the research gaps.