Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Rapid Delivery Routing of the Emergency Rescue in the Complex Mountain Region

Song, Zhihua; Zhang, Han; Wang, Ying; Zhang, Linghui

doi:10.1109/cis.2017.00081

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“…Nevertheless, this kind of protocols uses the technique of store-carry and forward (SCF) that is not suitable for urgent cases, and most particularly when it comes to human life to rescue. In [16], a rapid data delivery mechanism is adopted, where the graph modeling, the dynamic programming, and the use of a tabu list are all considered to calculate the optimal routing of UAVs. But, no technique of energy conservation is proposed, and especially when the optimal routing path comprises UAVs having a low residual energy.…”

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Leveraging Communicating UAVs for Emergency Vehicle Guidance in Urban Areas

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Lorenz

et al. 2021

IEEE Trans. Emerg. Topics Comput.

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The response time to emergency situations in urban areas is considered as a crucial key in limiting material damage or even saving human lives. Thanks to their "bird's eye view" and their flexible mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be a promising candidate for several vital applications. Under these perspectives, we investigate the use of communicating UAVs to detect any incident on the road, provide rescue teams with their exact locations, and plot the fastest path to intervene, while considering the constraints of the roads. To efficiently inform the rescue services, a robust routing scheme is introduced to ensure a high level of communication stability based on an efficient backbone, while considering both the high mobility and the restricted energy capacity of UAVs. This allows both predicting any routing path breakage prior to its occurrence, and carrying out a balanced energy consumption among UAVs. To ensure a rapid intervention by rescue teams, UAVs communicate in an ad hoc fashion with existing vehicles on the ground to estimate the fluidity of the roads. Our system is implemented and evaluated through a series of experiments. The reported results show that each part of the system reliably succeeds in achieving its planned objective.

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“…[15] Ref. [16] Ref. [17] Our application Surface Vehicles (USVs) to enhance the rescue missions of drowning victims.…”

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