Autonomous drones for humanitarians operations

Apvrille, Ludovic; Tanzi, Tullio J; Dugelay, Jean-Luc
Journées scientifiques URSI France, 25-26 March 2014, Paris, France

Information plays a key role to correctly handle consequences resulting from natural disasters. In particular, relieving rescue teams from gathering that information, and automatically guiding rescue teams to most urgent sub-situations is an open issue in which mini-drones can play a key role. Yet, the control of such vehicles is not straight forward to users and can be time consuming. Thus, our contribution is to bring autonomy to drones: to fly autonomously, e.g., scanning and covering a given area, and to realize some tasks (e.g., identifying groups of disabled persons). Last but not least, autonomous drones shall be able to perform both outdoor and indoor missions.


HAL
Type:
Conference
City:
Paris
Date:
2014-03-25
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
6017
Copyright:
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