Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Rescue System Design and Traffic Model Planning

Haoran Zhao,Wenjie Yang,Huibin Zhu

doi:10.3390/app112110481

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are widely used in disaster relief and road exploration in recent years. This paper mainly studied the emergency response of UAVs after disasters. The UAV response system is mainly suitable for the distribution of necessities and road exploration after geological disasters and tsunamis in coastal areas. By analyzing the problem and making reasonable assumptions, the optimization model was established with the traffic planning theory, and MATLAB software was used to program and solve the problem. An optimal scheduling scheme was presented to solve these problems. The normalization method was used to select a highly capable UAV. Taking the minimum volume of idle space buffer material as the objective function and taking into account the constraints, such as payload of unmanned aerial vehicle, a single objective programming model was established. The results are as follows: Each International Standards Organization (ISO) cargo container has five UAVs B, one UAV C, one UAV F and one UAV H. It provides 188 days of relief requirements with ISO cargo containers’ space utilization of 71.4%. The research shows that the UAV response system has the functions of necessities distribution and road exploration after disasters, and can be used to deal with the emergency response after disasters in coastal areas, and has a wide range of applicability.

Highlights

For delivery locations that are outside the maximum range for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), equipped with UAV B, equipped with UAV B and UAV F, distance and fastest flight speed in containers) and UAV F, the the appropriate types and quantities are allocated based on actual distances and required appropriate types and quantities are allocated based on actual distances and required doses
In order to reasonably configure the emergency response system, the corresponding model of a UAV is selected according to the actual situation, and is equipped with the appropriate number of drugs, and a three-dimensional packing model is established to form a single International Standards Organization (ISO) response unit
In order to improve transportation efficiency, three models—a transportation planning model based on benefit maximization, a transportation planning model based on shortest time and a traffic planning model based on maximum road coverage—were established, which are applicable to different situations respectively

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Introduction

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. How to develop a timely and efficient disaster relief program has been widely studied. With the acceleration of global warming, more and more people are affected by worsening tsunamis and hurricanes [1,2]. Earthquakes and other geological disasters bring endless disasters to human beings [3,4,5]. Human beings have carried out a lot of research on tsunami warnings [7,8,9], and put forward some solutions to the problem of disaster relief [10,11]

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