A survey on unmanned surface vehicles for disaster robotics: Main challenges and directions

VAM Jorge, R Granada, RG Maidana, DA Jurak… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Disaster robotics has become a research area in its own right, with several reported cases of
successful robot deployment in actual disaster scenarios. Most of these disaster …

Vehicular intelligence in 6G: Networking, communications, and computing

H Guo, X Zhou, J Liu, Y Zhang - Vehicular Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
With the deployment of 5G, researchers and experts begin to look forward to 6G. They
predict that 6G will be the key driving force for information interaction and social life after …

An autonomous coverage path planning algorithm for maritime search and rescue of persons-in-water based on deep reinforcement learning

J Wu, L Cheng, S Chu, Y Song - Ocean engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The prevalence of maritime transportation and operations is increasing, leading to a gradual
increase in drowning accidents at sea. In the context of maritime search and rescue (SAR), it …

Coordination between unmanned aerial and ground vehicles: A taxonomy and optimization perspective

J Chen, X Zhang, B Xin, H Fang - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground
vehicles (UGVs) is a proactive research topic whose great value of application has attracted …

Coordinated path planning for an unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle (UAAV) and an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in an underwater target strike mission

Y Wu - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Unmanned system has become more and more popular as it can adapt to diverse
environments and has prospective applications. Especially, the coordination among …

A detection method of the rescue targets in the marine casualty based on improved YOLOv5s

J Bai, J Dai, Z Wang, S Yang - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, with the deep exploitation of marine resources and the development of
maritime transportation, ship collision accidents occur frequently, which leads to the …

Design and experiment of a sea-air heterogeneous unmanned collaborative system for rapid inspection tasks at sea

T Ennong, L Ye, M Teng, L Yulei, L Yueming… - Applied Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The incorporation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into sea surface inspection
and complex water navigation tasks performed by Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) …

Automatic detection of rescue targets in maritime search and rescue missions using uavs

L Gonçalves, B Damas - 2022 International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be an important resource when performing Search
and Rescue (SAR) operations at sea, as this technology is fairly inexpensive when …

Visual pose estimation of USV from UAV to assist drowning victims recovery

J Dufek, R Murphy - … on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the visual localization subsystem of the ongoing EMILY project. This
project aims to assist responders with establishing contact with drowning victims as quickly …

Techniques and methods for managing disasters and critical situations

ZT AlAli, SA Alabady - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Despite the great development and advancement of technology over time, the problem of
disaster and crisis management and dealing with it remains a major and great challenge …