Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to prevent drowning

Seguin, Celia; Blaquière, Gilles; Loundou, Anderson; Michelet, Pierre; Markarian, Thibaut

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2018.04.005

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“…• Designing UAVs system with effective vision-based techniques is vital for use cases such as human tracking, identify mosquito habitats for eradicating malaria, and identify the critical case (e.g., drowning victims) • Human tracking and behavior/context detection are crucial for identifying critical and adverse events. However such applications requires effective real-time analytical methods that can identify the critical case (e.g., drowning victims [186]) immediately • Require effective methods that can deal with images taken from high altitude with low-quality resolution, such as using UAVs to identify mosquito habitats for eradicating malaria [37] then, come back to an area which is within the wireless network coverage and pass the collected data. In the literature, the coverage and the connectivity optimization have been heavily investigated for sensor networks and mobile robots.…”

Section: Medical and Healthcare Systemsmentioning

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Design Challenges of Multi-UAV Systems in Cyber-Physical Applications: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Directions

Shakeri

Al-Garadi

Badawy

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently rapidly grown to facilitate a wide range of innovative applications that can fundamentally change the way cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are designed. CPSs are a modern generation of systems with synergic cooperation between computational and physical potentials that can interact with humans through several new mechanisms. The main advantages of using UAVs in CPS application is their exceptional features, including their mobility, dynamism, effortless deployment, adaptive altitude, agility, adjustability, and effective appraisal of real-world functions anytime and anywhere. Furthermore, from the technology perspective, UAVs are predicted to be a vital element of the development of advanced CPSs. Therefore, in this survey, we aim to pinpoint the most fundamental and important design challenges of multi-UAV systems for CPS applications. We highlight key and versatile aspects that span the coverage and tracking of targets and infrastructure objects, energy-efficient navigation, and image analysis using machine learning for fine-grained CPS applications. Key prototypes and testbeds are also investigated to show how these practical technologies can facilitate CPS applications. We present and propose state-of-the-art algorithms to address design challenges with both quantitative and qualitative methods and map these challenges with important CPS applications to draw insightful conclusions on the challenges of each application. Finally, we summarize potential new directions and ideas that could shape future research in these areas. M 2 respectively. However, as shown in Fig.1, both technologies provide two extremes for surveillance with respect to accuracy versus intrusive deployment and maintenance. SRS provides slow large-scale monitoring, while CSNs require widespread deployment and constant human intervention for setup and maintenance, which may not be feasible particularly in harsh environments. On the one hand, SRS cannot be used for finegrain monitoring, such as monitoring of structural objects, with high accuracy, which limits its usage in many applications that require close monitoring and context detection [5]. On the other hand, traditional sensor networks (SNs) are spreading in countless number of Internet of Things (IoT) applications to provide automatic monitoring of objects, humans, and/or infrastructure. SNs, however, require permanent deployment of large magnitude of localized sensors, intrusively to the environment in many cases, and also require constant human intervention to manage and maintain. The proliferation of lowcost UAVs [6] is emerging to provide innovative ways of low altitude sensing with zero-deployment (i.e., no fixed deployment requirements) that can fundamentally change the way such applications are designed.Similar to surveillance applications, UAV technologies have progressed significantly in several applications in the past decade, making commercial and civil applications feasible and compelling. As it occurs with many disruptive technolo...

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Section: Medical and Healthcare Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Challenges of Multi-UAV Systems in Cyber-Physical Applications: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Directions

Shakeri

Al-Garadi

Badawy

et al. 2019

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

189

100

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“…The UAV can deliver a floating device to the swimmer safely and quickly. Adding an UAV to rescue operations can improve the quality and speed of first aid while keeping lifeguards away from dangerous marine conditions [2].…”

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“…UAVs are unmanned and have a wide range of size and weight values. Of course, drones are unmanned like UAVs, but they do not have autonomous flight [4,5,2,6,7]. Security risk management and definition of seriousness for aviation sector discussed below.…”

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Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Yazıcıoğlu

Borat

2020

ACRI

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UAVs performance is improved, in addition to GPS, they can find routes with artificial intelligence and various techniques, and can fly autonomously. The global UAV market was US$ 25.59 billion in 2018. It is estimated that the market will reach US$70.28 billion by 2029. The first three UAV manufacturers were DCL (USA), Parrot (France) and Yuneec (PRC) and are now being produced in many countries. Aircrafts are exposed to various risks: an aerodynamic stall due to inconsistent sensor readings and inadequate response, hitting a flock of geese or flying objects, pilot being unable to prevent the plane repeatedly nosediving despite following procedures. Therefore, procedures issued by aviation agency for aircraft type certification require an aircraft manufacturer (“applicant”) to demonstrate that its design complies with all applicable agency’s regulations and requirements. Safety risk management is a key component of a safety management system and involves fundamental activities such as identifying safety hazards, and assessing the risks and mitigation. Risk management is an integral component of safety management and involves some essential steps.Take into account any current mitigation measures and assess the seriousness in terms of the worst possible realistic scenario. The risk assessment considered five operational environments; remote, rural, suburban, urban, and congested. Reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety assessment are important study in the development of UAVs. This kind of study is mandatory to increase the reliability of the UAV, its availability, and to reduce repair and maintenance costs.

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“…Recently, drones have been proposed as a tool to support several aspects of disaster response [7,8] such as gathering information on the ground state, 3D mapping [9], situational awareness, logistics planning, damage assessment, communications relay points, and direct SAR missions. They have also been used to support SAR missions [10] through delivery of live-saving equipment such as life vests [11,12], or allowing for audible communication through speakers with people once they are located. Whilst several drone systems have been proposed for carrying out SAR directly by autonomously locating people in need of rescue [13][14][15][16][17][18], to date, they have not been implemented as the leading method for finding casualties in an automatic or systematic way, or made widely available to SAR practitioners to use.…”

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Requirements and Limitations of Thermal Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marine and Coastal Areas

Burke

McWhirter

Veitch-Michaelis

et al. 2019

Drones

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Search and rescue (SAR) is a vital line of defense against unnecessary loss of life. However,in a potentially hazardous environment, it is important to balance the risks associated with SARaction. Drones have the potential to help with the efficiency, success rate and safety of SAR operationsas they can cover large or hard to access areas quickly. The addition of thermal cameras to the dronesprovides the potential for automated and reliable detection of people in need of rescue. We performeda pilot study with a thermal-equipped drone for SAR applications in Morecambe Bay. In a varietyof realistic SAR scenarios, we found that we could detect humans who would be in need of rescue,both by the naked eye and by a simple automated method. We explore the current advantages andlimitations of thermal drone systems, and outline the future path to a useful system for deploymentin real-life SAR.

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to prevent drowning

Cited by 48 publications

References 11 publications

Design Challenges of Multi-UAV Systems in Cyber-Physical Applications: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Directions

Design Challenges of Multi-UAV Systems in Cyber-Physical Applications: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Directions

Risk Assessment and Mitigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Requirements and Limitations of Thermal Drones for Effective Search and Rescue in Marine and Coastal Areas

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