Forest fire monitoring with multiple small UAVs

被引：223

作者：

Casbeer, DW ^{[1
]}

Beard, RW ^{[1
]}

McLain, TW ^{[1
]}

Li, SM ^{[1
]}

Mehra, RK ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT 84602 USA

来源：

ACC: Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Vols 1-7 | 2005年

关键词：

D O I：

10.1109/ACC.2005.1470520

中图分类号：

TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];

学科分类号：

0812 ;

摘要：

Frequent updates concerning the progress of a forest fire are essential for effective and safe fire fighting. Since a forest fire is typically inaccessible by ground vehicles due to mountainous terrain, small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as a promising means of monitoring large forest fires. We present an effective UAV path planning algorithm utilizing infrared images that are collected on-board in real-time. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our path planning algorithm in realistic scenarios, we simulated the propagation of a forest fire with the EMBYR model. A new cooperative control mission concept is indroduced where multiple Low-Altitude, Short-Endurance (LASE) UAVs are used for fire monitoring. By emplying multiple UAVs, the effectiveness of the mission in terms of information update rate can be improved dramatically.

引用

页码：3530 / 3535

页数：6