Integration of UAVs in Urban Search and Rescue Missions

Hartmut Surmann,Alexander Schmitz,Tim Buschmann,Artur Leinweber,Gerhard Senkowski,Niklas Goddemeier,Rainer Worst

doi:10.1109/ssrr.2019.8848940

Integration of UAVs in Urban Search and Rescue Missions

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ssrr.2019.8848940

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Publication Date: Sep 1, 2019

Citations: 34

Affiliation: University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Management, Robotic Technology (United States), Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

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This technical report is about the architecture and integration of commercial UAVs in Search and Rescue missions. We describe a framework that consists of heterogeneous UAVs, a UAV task planner, a bridge to the UAVs, an intelligent image hub, and a 3D point cloud generator. A first version of the framework was developed and tested in several training missions in the EU project TRADR.

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