Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles in bushfire management: Challenges and opportunities

S Partheepan, F Sanati, J Hassan - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intensity and frequency of bushfires have increased significantly, destroying property
and living species in recent years. Presently, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology …

A comprehensive survey of research towards AI-enabled unmanned aerial systems in pre-, active-, and post-wildfire management

SPH Boroujeni, A Razi, S Khoshdel, F Afghah… - Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires have emerged as one of the most destructive natural disasters worldwide, causing
catastrophic losses. These losses have underscored the urgent need to improve public …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-Agent Graph-Attention Communication and Teaming.

Y Niu, RR Paleja, MC Gombolay - AAMAS, 2021 - yaruniu.com
High-performing teams learn effective communication strategies to judiciously share
information and reduce the cost of communication overhead. Within multi-agent …

Unmanned aerial vehicles for wildland fires: Sensing, perception, cooperation and assistance

MA Akhloufi, A Couturier, NA Castro - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wildfires represent a significant natural risk causing economic losses, human death and
environmental damage. In recent years, the world has seen an increase in fire intensity and …

Drone swarms in fire suppression activities: A conceptual framework

E Ausonio, P Bagnerini, M Ghio - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recent huge technological development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can
provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest …

[HTML][HTML] Holistic review of UAV-centric situational awareness: Applications, limitations, and algorithmic challenges

S MahmoudZadeh, A Yazdani, Y Kalantari, B Ciftler… - Robotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of UAV-centric situational awareness (SA),
delineating its applications, limitations, and underlying algorithmic challenges. It highlights …

Human-robot teaming: grand challenges

M Natarajan, E Seraj, B Altundas, R Paleja, S Ye… - Current Robotics …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Current real-world interaction between humans and robots is
extremely limited. We present challenges that, if addressed, will enable humans and robots …

Multi-UAV planning for cooperative wildfire coverage and tracking with quality-of-service guarantees

E Seraj, A Silva, M Gombolay - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, teams of robot and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been
commissioned by researchers to enable accurate, online wildfire coverage and tracking …

UAV path planning using global and local map information with deep reinforcement learning

M Theile, H Bayerlein, R Nai, D Gesbert… - 2021 20th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically
designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV …

[PDF][PDF] Learning Efficient Diverse Communication for Cooperative Heterogeneous Teaming.

E Seraj, Z Wang, R Paleja, A Patel, M Gombolay - 2022 - osti.gov
High-performing teams learn intelligent and efficient communication and coordination
strategies to maximize their joint utility. These teams implicitly understand the different roles …