Networked Drones for Industrial Emergency Events
Maryam Khalid, Edward W. Knightly

TL;DR
This paper proposes a two-phase UAV network system for rapid, reliable industrial emergency site surveys, detecting toxic plumes without prior plume location assumptions, and optimizing coverage and resource use.
Contribution
It introduces an end-to-end two-phase strategy combining vehicle routing and Gaussian extrapolation for efficient, high-resolution toxic plume detection in UAV networks.
Findings
Two-phase approach improves detection accuracy and efficiency.
Uniform coverage better for single UAV, random search better for multiple UAVs.
Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
Abstract
Uncontrolled emissions of gases from industrial accidents and disasters result in huge loss of life and property. Such extreme events require a quick and reliable survey of the site for effective rescue strategy planning. To achieve these goals, a network of unmanned aerial vehicles can be deployed that survey the affected region and identify safe and danger zones. Although single UAV-based systems for gas sensing applications are well-studied in literature, research on the deployment of a UAV network for such applications, which is more robust and fault tolerant, is still in infancy. The objective of this project is to design a system that can be deployed in emergency situations to provide a quick survey and identification of safe and dangerous zones in a given region that contains a toxic plume without making any assumptions about plume location. We focus on an end-to-end solution and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsUAV Applications and Optimization · Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems · Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
MethodsRandom Search
