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Experimental Results in Multi-UAV Coordination for Disaster Management and Civil Security Applications

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This paper describes a multi-UAV distributed decisional architecture developed in the framework of the AWARE Project together with a set of tests with real Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to validate this approach in disaster management and civil security applications. The paper presents the different components of the AWARE platform and the scenario in which the multi-UAV missions were carried out. The missions described in this paper include surveillance with multiple UAVs, sensor deployment and fire threat confirmation. In order to avoid redundancies, instead of describing the operation of the full architecture for every mission, only non-overlapping aspects are highlighted in each one. Key issues in multi-UAV systems such as distributed task allocation, conflict resolution and plan refining are solved in the execution of the missions.

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  1. Escuela Superior de Ingenieros, Universidad de Sevilla, Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain

    Iván Maza, Fernando Caballero, Jesús Capitán, J. R. Martínez-de-Dios & Aníbal Ollero

  2. Center for Advanced Aerospace Technology (CATEC), Parque Tecnológico y Aeronáutico de Andalucía, C. Wilbur y Orville Wright 17-19-21, 41309, La Rinconada, Spain

    Aníbal Ollero

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This work was partially supported by the AWARE project (IST-2006-33579) funded by the European Commission and the ROBAIR Project funded by the Spanish Research and Development Program (DPI2008-03847). J. R. Martínez-de-Dios also thanks the support provided by the CONET Network of Excellence (INFSO-ICT-224053) funded by the European Commission.

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Maza, I., Caballero, F., Capitán, J. et al. Experimental Results in Multi-UAV Coordination for Disaster Management and Civil Security Applications. J Intell Robot Syst 61, 563–585 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-010-9497-5

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