Due to a growing number of people who carry out various adrenaline activities or adventure
tourism and stay in the mountains and other inaccessible places, there is an increasing …

Wilderness search and rescue entails performing a wide-range of work in complex
environments and large regions. Given the concerns inherent in large regions due to limited …

In manufacturing, advanced robotic technology has opened up the possibility of integrating
highly autonomous mobile robots into human teams. However, with this capability comes the …

Advancements in robotic technology are making it increasingly possible to integrate robots
into the human workspace in order to improve productivity and decrease worker strain …

Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) focuses on locating and extricating missing
persons in remote settings. As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or “drone” technology has …

The domain of public safety in the form of search & rescue, wildland firefighting, structure
firefighting, and law enforcement operations have drawn great interest in the field of …

In this chapter, I review research involving remote human supervision of multiple unmanned
vehicles (UVs) using command complexity as an organizing construct. Multi-UV tasks range …

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are increasingly being used in search and rescue (SAR)
operations to assist in the discovery of missing persons. UAS are useful to first responders in …

In this paper, an active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) system is developed for
autonomous quadrotor with obstacle avoidance. In this control system, the controller based …

The automation of the Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) task aims for high levels of
understanding of various scenery. In addition, working in unfriendly and complex …