Search and Rescue is a vitally important subject, and one which can be improved through the use of modern technology. This work presents a number of advances aimed towards the creation of a swarm of autonomous, collaborative, unmanned aerial vehicles for land-based search and rescue. The main advances are the development of a diffusion based search strategy for route planning, research into GPS (including the Durham Tracker Project and statistical research into altitude errors), and the creation of a relative positioning system (including discussion of the errors caused by fast-moving units). Overviews are also given of the current state of research into both UAVs and Search and Rescue.
Subject
Electrical engineering
Classification
0544: Electrical engineering
Identifier / keyword
(UMI)AAIU621147; Applied sciences
Title
Autonomous, collaborative, unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue
Author
Ambrose-Thurman, Andrew Michael Luke
Source
DAI-C 74/04, Dissertation Abstracts International
University/institution
University of Durham (United Kingdom)
Department
School of Engineering and Computing Science
University location
England
Source type
Dissertation or Thesis
Document type
Dissertation/Thesis
Note
Bibliographic data provided by EThOS, the British Library’s UK thesis service: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614420
Dissertation/thesis number
U621147
ProQuest document ID
1654746892
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1654746892/abstract/