Cooperative and Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Emergency Response Applications

用于应急响应应用的协作和智能无人机

• 批准号: EP/Y028066/1
• 负责人: Jie Zhang
• 金额: $ 10.61万
• 依托单位: Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY028066%2F1
• 关键词: Cooperative; Intelligent; Unmanned; Aerial; Vehicles

The climate change is now one of the biggest threats faced by our natural world and leads to many extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires and heatwaves. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the promising technologies for the emergency response applications (ERAs) to provide more efficient and faster services to save lives and reduce economic loss. This project aims to develop an innovative cooperative, connected and intelligent UAVs (CIUs) for ERAs, where sensing and computing resources, and flying information from individual UAV could be shared and exploited through effective communications and control of the CIUs. Specifically, context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything (U2X) networks; robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing (CSC) schemes and intelligent cooperative UAV control strategies for ERAs will be investigated. An international inter-sector and inter-disciplinary consortium consisting of world leading academic institutions and prominent industrial partners is created to collaborate on developing novel CIU technologies in ERAs. Cutting-edge communications networks, edge computing, cooperative sensing, intelligent control, and machine learning related technologies will be investigated to tackle the associated challenges. With competent and complementary expertise of the partners and their extensive international research collaboration experience, this project will promote research innovation, foster knowledge sharing, enhance the potentials of participating researchers, and contribute to the European leadership in the UAVs, cooperative sensing and computing, multi-agent control, information and communications technology (ICT), and emergency response sectors. The developed CIU technologies and applications are not only applicable in various ERAs, like flooding, wildfires, and earthquake; but can also be readily extended to other applications, such as smart cities, public safety, agriculture, and the wider scientific community.

气候变化现在是自然界面临的最大威胁之一，导致许多极端天气事件、洪水、野火和热浪。无人机 (UAV) 是应急响应应用 (ERA) 中极具前景的技术，可以提供更高效、更快速的服务来拯救生命并减少经济损失。该项目旨在为 ERA 开发一种创新的协作、互联和智能无人机 (CIU)，通过 CIU 的有效通信和控制，可以共享和利用来自单个无人机的传感和计算资源以及飞行信息。具体来说，上下文感知和面向服务的无人机到一切（U2X）网络；将研究鲁棒的协作无人机传感和计算（CSC）方案以及用于 ERA 的智能协作无人机控制策略。一个由世界领先的学术机构和著名的工业合作伙伴组成的国际跨部门和跨学科联盟成立，旨在合作开发 ERA 中的新型 CIU 技术。将研究尖端通信网络、边缘计算、协作感知、智能控制和机器学习相关技术，以应对相关挑战。凭借合作伙伴的能力和互补专业知识以及广泛的国际研究合作经验，该项目将促进研究创新，促进知识共享，增强参与研究人员的潜力，并为欧洲在无人机、协作传感和计算、多用途领域的领导地位做出贡献。 -代理控制、信息和通信技术（ICT）以及应急响应部门。开发的CIU技术和应用不仅适用于洪水、山火、地震等各种ERA；但也可以轻松扩展到其他应用，例如智慧城市、公共安全、农业和更广泛的科学界。