Wilderness Search and Rescue with Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Rodríguez, Marcos; Al-Kaff, Abdulla; Madridano, Ángel; Martín, David; Escalera, Arturo de la

doi:10.1109/icuas48674.2020.9213974

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“…Of the 276 articles identified through database searches of Scopus (187), PubMed (82), CINAHL (5), and Cochrane (2), 21 records were found that met the inclusion criteria. 2,3,5,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] The data extracted from these 21 records are summarized in Table 1. The final 3 columns of Table 1 summarize the different authors' pronouncements on the type, usefulness, terrain, and context of the UAVs featured in their study.…”

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Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wilderness Search and Rescue Operations: A Scoping Review

Vincent-Lambert,

Pretorius,

Van Tonder

2023

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) focuses on locating and extricating missing persons in remote settings. As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or "drone" technology has evolved, so has the literature describing its application in WSAR operations. We conducted a scoping review of literature that describes the use of UAVs in WSAR contexts. The Joanna Briggs Institute Framework for scoping reviews was followed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews method. Additional individual databases, article reference lists, and relevant grey literature were also included in the search to provide an impartial scope. Seven hundred forty-seven articles were identified. Of these, 56 were found to be duplicates. The remaining 691 were further screened and checked for eligibility. Ultimately, 21 studies were found that met our inclusion criteria. This literature supports the use of UAVs to increase the safety and efficiency of a WSAR operation for locating victims, assessing risks, carrying equipment, and restoring communication systems. Unmanned aerial vehicles are a potentially useful adjunct in the management of WSAR operations. Their limitations include objects obscuring victims, weather changes, uneven terrain, battery-limited flight time, and susceptibility to environmental damage.

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Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wilderness Search and Rescue Operations: A Scoping Review

Vincent-Lambert,

Pretorius,

Van Tonder

2023

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

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“…In Rodríguez et al (2020), wilderness search and rescue with heterogeneous ground and aerial multi-robot systems is explored. In this work the authors argue that using a team of heterogeneous robots improves the robustness and efficiency of the team compared to using a team of homogenous agents.…”

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“…In Rodríguez et al. (2020) , wilderness search and rescue with heterogeneous ground and aerial multi-robot systems is explored.…”

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On the role and opportunities in teamwork design for advanced multi-robot search systems

Francos

Bruckstein²

2023

Front. Robot. AI

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Intelligent robotic systems are becoming ever more present in our lives across a multitude of domains such as industry, transportation, agriculture, security, healthcare and even education. Such systems enable humans to focus on the interesting and sophisticated tasks while robots accomplish tasks that are either too tedious, routine or potentially dangerous for humans to do. Recent advances in perception technologies and accompanying hardware, mainly attributed to rapid advancements in the deep-learning ecosystem, enable the deployment of robotic systems equipped with onboard sensors as well as the computational power to perform autonomous reasoning and decision making online. While there has been significant progress in expanding the capabilities of single and multi-robot systems during the last decades across a multitude of domains and applications, there are still many promising areas for research that can advance the state of cooperative searching systems that employ multiple robots. In this article, several prospective avenues of research in teamwork cooperation with considerable potential for advancement of multi-robot search systems will be visited and discussed. In previous works we have shown that multi-agent search tasks can greatly benefit from intelligent cooperation between team members and can achieve performance close to the theoretical optimum. The techniques applied can be used in a variety of domains including planning against adversarial opponents, control of forest fires and coordinating search-and-rescue missions. The state-of-the-art on methods of multi-robot search across several selected domains of application is explained, highlighting the pros and cons of each method, providing an up-to-date view on the current state of the domains and their future challenges.

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“…AS is widely used in the field of SAR missions, where aerial [11] or ground [242] robots, embedded with visual [12], acoustic [243] or radio [10] devices, are employed to detect [83] and localize [244] people in imminent danger. Accidental releases of liquid or gaseous pollutants (i.e., HAZ-MAT) into the ambient environment can occur at industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, chemical plants, oil and gas transportation pipelines, and many other industrial activities.…”

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Active Sensing for Search and Tracking: A Review

Varotto¹,

Cenedese²,

Cavallaro³

2021

Preprint

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Active Position Estimation (APE) is the task of localizing one or more targets using one or more sensing platforms. APE is a key task for search and rescue missions, wildlife monitoring, source term estimation, and collaborative mobile robotics. Success in APE depends on the level of cooperation of the sensing platforms, their number, their degrees of freedom and the quality of the information gathered. APE control laws enable active sensing by satisfying either pure-exploitative or pure-explorative criteria. The former minimizes the uncertainty on position estimation; whereas the latter drives the platform closer to its task completion. In this paper, we define the main elements of APE to systematically classify and critically discuss the state of the art in this domain. We also propose a reference framework as a formalism to classify APE-related solutions. Overall, this survey explores the principal challenges and envisages the main research directions in the field of autonomous perception systems for localization tasks. It is also beneficial to promote the development of robust active sensing methods for search and tracking applications.

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Wilderness Search and Rescue with Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wilderness Search and Rescue Operations: A Scoping Review

Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wilderness Search and Rescue Operations: A Scoping Review

On the role and opportunities in teamwork design for advanced multi-robot search systems

Active Sensing for Search and Tracking: A Review

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