A Heterogeneous Fleet of Vehicles for Automated Humanitarian Missions

Author

Mosterman, Pieter J. ; Sanabria, David Escobar ; Bilgin, Enes ; Kun Zhang ; Zander, J.

Volume

16

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

May-June 2014

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

95

Abstract

An automated emergency response system and an experimental framework for its design and validation are presented here. The system consists of a high-level mission optimization and a fleet of heterogeneous autonomous vehicles. The fleet includes ground vehicles for setting up local stations, fixed-wing aircraft for assessing infrastructure damage and performing surveillance, and rotorcraft for delivering emergency supplies. Internet technology provides a unifying environment for the vehicles, optimization module, operators, and emergency responders with support for computational integration in cyberspace.

Keywords

Internet; aerospace computing; autonomous aerial vehicles; emergency services; helicopters; optimisation; Internet technology; automated emergency response system; automated humanitarian missions; cyberspace computational integration; fixed-wing aircraft; ground vehicles; heterogeneous autonomous vehicles; high-level mission optimization; optimization module; rotorcraft; Computational modeling; Emergency services; Land vehicles; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Vehicles; cyber-physical systems; humanitarian; model-based design; modeling; operations; scientific computing; simulation; virtual integration; visualization; wireless control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2014.58

Filename

6834701