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Litter, Jansen J. "Mobile robot for search and rescue." Ohio : Ohio University, 2004. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1176921842.

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Steen, Thor Audun. "Search and Rescue Mission Using Multicopters." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-25925.

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Search and rescue operations can greatly benefit from the use of autonomous unmanned aerial systems to survey the environment and collect evidence about the positions of missing persons. This thesis considers the design of an autonomous multicopter system for use in a search and rescue mission. The ArduPilot Mega is used as the autopilot and is presented together with detailed information about the utilized hardware and software. The design of a low- level control interface is implemented as an extension to APM:Copter using the MAVLink protocol allowing attitude or velocity control of the mult
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Soylemez, Emrah. "Gis-based Search Theory Application For Search And Rescue Planning." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608362/index.pdf.

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Search and Rescue (SAR) operations aim at finding missing objects with minimum time in a determined area. There are fundamentally two problems in these operations. The first problem is assessing highly reliable probability distribution maps, and the second is determining the search pattern that sweeps the area from the air as fast as possible. In this study, geographic information systems (GIS) and multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) are integrated and a new model is developed based upon Search Theory in order to find the position of the missing object as quickly as possible with optimum r
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Cavallin, Kristoffer, and Peter Svensson. "Semi-Autonomous,Teleoperated Search and Rescue Robot." Thesis, Umeå University, Department of Computing Science, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-31928.

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<p>The interest in robots in the urban search and rescue (USAR) field has increased the last two decades. The idea is to let robots move into places where human rescue workers cannot or, due to high personal risks, should not enter.In this thesis project, an application is constructed with the purpose of teleoperating a simple robot. This application contains a user interface that utilizes both autonomous and semi-autonomous functions, such as search, explore and point-and-go behaviours. The purpose of the application is to work with USAR principles in a refined and simplified environment, and
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Mosesson, Yael, and Petra Nyqvist. "Tracking with search and rescue dog equipage." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Kommunikations- och transportsystem, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119940.

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Sjöfartsverket ansvarar för insatser när människor är i, eller befaras vara i sjönöd. För att utveckla metoderna för efterforskning av försvunna människor i sjönöd har Sjöfartsverket tillsammans med Sjöräddningssällskapet, Svenska Brukshundklubben och Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB) startat ett projekt tillsammans med räddningshundar som specialutbildats för att agera i sjömiljö, så kallade sjöräddningshundekipage. Syftet har varit att genom intervjuer och observationer ta reda på vilka sökmetoder som används för eftersök av försvunna människor på land med räddningshundar för
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Mardell, James. "Assisting search and rescue through visual attention." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/24156.

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With the ubiquity of visual data being recorded, we now have the ability to view vast amounts of visual imagery. However, searching through imagery for an indeterminate target in tasks such as security baggage inspection, medical scan screening and Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR), remains problematic for most people and cannot be automated. If the imagery was presented to account for the way in which humans cognitively process such visuals, then the success of these tasks might be improved. This thesis proposes and evaluates a series of presentation methods to manipulate imagery to seek t
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Beck, Zoltan. "Collaborative search and rescue by autonomous robots." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/411031/.

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In recent years, professional first responders have started to use novel technologies at the scene of disasters in order to save more lives. Increasingly, they use robots to search disaster sites. One of the most widely and successfully used robot platforms in the disaster response domain are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAVs allow remote inspection and mapping. They are able to provide high resolution imagery and often need minimal infrastructure to fly. This allows settings where multiple UAVs are airborne accelerating the information gathering from the disaster site. However, current de
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Roscheck, Michael Thomas. "Detection Likelihood Maps for Wilderness Search and Rescue: Assisting Search by Utilizing Searcher GPS Track Logs." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3312.

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Every year there are numerous cases of individuals becoming lost in remote wilderness environments. Principles of search theory have become a foundation for developing more efficient and successful search and rescue methods. Measurements can be taken that describe how easily a search object is to detect. These estimates allow the calculation of the probability of detection—the probability that an object would have been detected if in the area. This value only provides information about the search area as a whole; it does not provide details about which portions were searched more thoroughly th
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Hammerseth, Vegard B. "Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle In Search And Rescue." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-22880.

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This report presents a way of using autonomous drones to enhance search and rescue operations and takes the first steps in bringing the system to life. By using autonomous drones, less experience is required by the rescue personnel and drone specialists become excessive in this matter. Due to autonomy a drone can operate outside a valid radio link. Hence, when signal is lost, the craft can continue to search, buffer the information and send it when the link becomes active. By creating affordable drones the threshold decreases for deploying a unit in bad weather or other missions where the feed
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Ryu, Kun Jin. "Autonomous Robotic Strategies for Urban Search and Rescue." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19194.

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This dissertation proposes autonomous robotic strategies for urban search and rescue (USAR) which are map-based semi-autonomous robot navigation and fully-autonomous robotic search, tracking, localization and mapping (STLAM) using a team of robots. Since the prerequisite for these solutions is accurate robot localization in the environment, this dissertation first presents a novel grid-based scan-to-map matching technique for accurate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). At every acquisition of a new scan and estimation of the robot pose, the proposed technique corrects the estimation
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Forsslund, Patrik, and Simon Monié. "MULTI-DRONE COLLABORATION FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE MISSIONS." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54439.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), also called drones, are used for Search And Rescue (SAR) missions, mainly in the form of a pilot manoeuvring a single drone. However, the increase in labour to cover larger areas quickly would result in a very high cost and time spent per rescue operation. Therefore, there is a need for an easy to use, low-cost, and highly autonomous swarm of drones for SAR missions where the detection and rescue times are kept to a minimum. In this thesis, a Subsumption-based architecture is proposed, which combines multiple behaviours to create more complex behaviours. An inves
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Mort, Alasdair. "Novel electronic physiologic monitor potential in remote and rural search and rescue." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=158403.

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This thesis evaluates novel electronic physiologic monitor potential in remote and rural search and rescue. Casualties are often located a considerable distance away from definitive care. Their rescue involves a variety of groups, including volunteer rescue teams. Rescuers manage a wide range of medical problems, from minor issues to more serious, life-threatening conditions. However, casualty monitoring is restricted by steep terrain and extreme environmental conditions. Evidence indicated that novel electronic physiologic monitors were in development. Some were lightweight and wireless – it
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Zhuang, Peng Shang Yi. "Wireless sensor network aided search and rescue in trails." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4626.

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Thesis (M.S.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 29, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Andersen, Håvard Lægreid. "Path Planning for Search and Rescue Mission using Multicopters." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-25926.

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This thesis considers path planning for a low-cost multicopter used in the searchpart of a search and rescue mission. Search patterns or trajectories are consideredand evaluated through simulations in MATLAB. How to place the onboard camerain order to cover as much area as possible and which altitude that gives the mostarea coverage without making the subjects too small to detect is discussed.The proposed search patterns are implemented in the existing software structureused in this project. The implementation is tested using a ArduPilot software inthe loop simulator, and by flight tests using
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Redfern, Anthony. "Radar simulator training for effective maritime search and rescue." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2213.

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The main effort in locating and rescuing survivors of a maritime incident is borne by merchant shipping. This research shows that search and rescue is a task that will face most seafarers, but as they generally lack the necessary levels of skill and knowledge required the task will often be poorly performed. A remedy to this unsatisfactory situation lies in proper training and guidance for ships' officers. This thesis evaluates, using illuminative techniques, the first simulator course devised to provide such training. The evaluation will be of particular use to others called upon to provide s
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Schurr, Naomi D. (Naomi Danika). "Inferring beliefs for search and rescue from natural language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120439.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-101).<br>A learned natural language robotic interface can allow a human operator to intuitively communicate instructions to a robot. A number of models, including probabilistic grounding graphs, have been used to ground natural language input to the real-world tasks a robot must perform. In this thesis, I provide two extensions to existing work in grounding natural language instructions. First, I apply a
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Meredith, Andre Paul. "An unmanned aircraft system for maritime search and rescue." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6720.

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Thesis (MScEng (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Search and Rescue is an essential service provided by States and Militaries to search for, locate and rescue survivors of accidents and incidents. Civil Search and Rescue utilizes a system of well-trained professionals or volunteers, an effective Search and Rescue organization, supported by industry and other providers of infrastructure and assets. The service is rendered to save the lives of civilian individuals in imminent danger of losing their lives. Military (Combat) Search
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Ambrose-Thurman, Andrew Michael Luke. "Autonomous, collaborative, unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10652/.

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Search and Rescue is a vitally important subject, and one which can be improved through the use of modern technology. This work presents a number of advances aimed towards the creation of a swarm of autonomous, collaborative, unmanned aerial vehicles for land-based search and rescue. The main advances are the development of a diffusion based search strategy for route planning, research into GPS (including the Durham Tracker Project and statistical research into altitude errors), and the creation of a relative positioning system (including discussion of the errors caused by fast-moving units).
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Lin, Rongbin Lanny. "UAV intelligent path planning for wilderness search and rescue /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2906.pdf.

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Lin, Rongbin. "UAV Intelligent Path Planning for Wilderness Search and Rescue." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1759.

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In Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR), the incident commander (IC) creates a probability distribution map of the likely location of the missing person. This map is important because it guides the IC in allocating search resources and coordinating efforts, but it often depends almost exclusively on prior experience and subjective judgment. We propose a Bayesian model that utilizes publicly available terrain features data to help model lost-person behaviors. This approach enables domain experts to encode uncertainty in their prior estimations and also make it possible to incorporate human-beha
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Akdemir, Gümüş Derya Keçeci Emin Faruk. "Design of a rescue robot for search and mapping operation/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2006. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezlerengelli/master/makinamuh/T000546.pdf.

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Thesis (Master)--İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, 2006.<br>Keywords: Robot design, mechanical applications, rescue, mapping, search robot, rescue robot. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66).
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Topal, Sebahattin. "Multi-robot Coordination Control Methodology For Search And Rescue Operations." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613841/index.pdf.

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This dissertation presents a novel multi-robot coordination control algorithm for search and rescue (SAR) operations. Continuous and rapid coverage of the unstructured and complex disaster areas in search of possible buried survivors is a time critical operation where prior information about the environment is either not available or very limited. Human navigation of such areas is definitely dangerous due to the nature of the debris. Hence, exploration of unknown disaster environments with a team of robots is gaining importance day by day to increase the efficiency of SAR operations. Localizat
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Shams, Farhad. "Apparatus and System For Search and Rescue Operations At Sea." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-37211.

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The aim of this thesis is to design and implement of an independent rescue system that includes a transmitter part which can be embedded in the life jacket of boat passengers and a receiver part. The system includes GPS, Radio besides a 3-axis magnetometer in order to set the heading of receiver part to transmitter part. The overall system has been designed with some feasible tests in order to support proposed system in completeness and effectiveness.
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Ebrahimi-Oskoei, Ehsan. "Swarm of UAVs: Search & Rescue Operationin Chaotic Ship Wakes." Thesis, KTH, Flygdynamik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-159282.

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A person falling of a ship can be difficult to locate since the wake behind the ship forms achaotic field, making it extremely difficult to predict the location of the victim even if thetime when they fell overboard is known. Survivability for humans immersed at sea is verydependent on the time spent in the water, and varies significantly with sea temperature; thismakes it imperative that the victim is retrieved rapidly. Our current research is aimed atreducing this time using several UAV's searching the ships wake simultaneously, as a swarm.Since the wake is chaotic, a simulation was develope
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Guirguis, Maria (Maria A. ). "Robot search and rescue : a comparison of 3D mapping techniques." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61000.

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26).<br>Modern robots are involved in sophisticated manipulations of their environment, and for that they need extensive knowledge of their surroundings. 3D mapping allows for the creation of such complex maps, and here we explo
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Saeedi, P. "Self-organised multi agent system for search and rescue operations." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2010. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/147198/.

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Autonomous multi-agent systems perform inadequately in time critical missions, while they tend to explore exhaustively each location of the field in one phase with out selecting the pertinent strategy. This research aims to solve this problem by introducing a hierarchy of exploration strategies. Agents explore an unknown search terrain with complex topology in multiple predefined stages by performing pertinent strategies depending on their previous observations. Exploration inside unknown, cluttered, and confined environments is one of the main challenges for search and rescue robots inside co
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Patnayak, Chinmaya. "Distributed Intelligence for Multi-Agent Systems in Search and Rescue." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/100796.

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Unfavorable environmental and (or) human displacement may engender the need for Search and Rescue (SAR). Challenges such as inaccessibility, large search areas, and heavy reliance on available responder count, limited equipment and training makes SAR a challenging problem. Additionally, SAR operations also pose significant risk to involved responders. This opens a remarkable opportunity for robotic systems to assist and augment human understanding of the harsh environments. A large body of work exists on the introduction of ground and aerial robots in visual and temporal inspection of search a
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Bleakney, Eric M. "Finding the "sweet spot" for catastrophic incident search and rescue." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2009/Sep/09Sep%5FBleakney.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2009.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Supinski, Stan. "September 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 05, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: Search and Rescue, Catastrophic Incident, Catastrophic Planning, National Search and Rescue Advisory Committee, Integrated Planning, NIFC, National Interagency Fire Center, MAC, National Multiagency Coordination Center, MACC, Multiagency Communications Center, Interagency Coordination, sweet spot, USNORTHCOM, United States Northern Comma
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Mirhassani, Seyedmohsen <1989&gt. "A Ground Robot for Search And Rescue in Hostile Environment." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/8416/7/Mirhassani_final.pdf.

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The recent sheer developments in the field of robotics has encouraged the researcher to consider the robots assisting human in different aspects of life. In this context, search and rescue is a very interesting ambient where the capabilities offered by the robots can be used to not only augment the quality of service but also impose lower risk to the human members of the rescue team. To this purpose, project SHERPA has been defined to investigate an intelligent heterogeneous robotic team in a search and rescue mission. The robotic team includes flying robots such as fixed wing and quad co
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Scone, Sion. "Opportunistic communication schemes for unmanned vehicles in urban search and rescue." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2010. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7269.

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In urban search and rescue (USAR) operations, there is a considerable amount of danger faced by rescuers. The use of mobile robots can alleviate this issue. Coordinating the search effort is made more difficult by the communication issues typically faced in these environments, such that communication is often restricted. With small numbers of robots, it is necessary to break communication links in order to explore the entire environment. The robots can be viewed as a broken ad hoc network, relying on opportunistic contact in order to share data. In order to minimise overheads when exchanging d
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Hunt, Alexander. "A Biologically Inspired Robot for Assistance in Urban Search and Rescue." Cleveland, Ohio : Case Western Reserve University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1270137669.

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Thesis (Master of Sciences (Engineering))--Case Western Reserve University, 2010<br>Department of EMC - Mechanical Engineering Title from PDF (viewed on 2010-05-25) Includes abstract Includes bibliographical references and appendices Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center
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Castle, Timothy S. "Coordinated inland area Search and Rescue (SAR) planning and execution tool." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1998. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA355989.

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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1998.<br>"September 1998." Thesis advisor(s): Gordon H. Bradley, Alan R. Washburn. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82). Also available online.
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Giamou, Matthew Peter. "Place recognition for GNSS-denied autonomous multi-robot search and rescue." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112422.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-85).<br>Teams of agile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) possess great potential for search and rescue missions requiring a rapid response over a large region of interest. With proper coordination, these robotic vehicles can leverage affordable hardware to efficiently search a remote region or disaster site for lost or injured people. However, effective search coordination requires that the robots successf
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Gabrecht, Katharina M. "Human factors of semi-autonomous robots for urban search and rescue." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35458/.

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During major disasters or other emergencies, Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams are responsible for extricating casualties safely from collapsed urban structures. The rescue work is dangerous due to possible further collapse, fire, dust or electricity hazards. Sometimes the necessary precautions and checks can last several hours before rescuers are safe to start the search for survivors. Remote controlled rescue robots provide the opportunity to support human rescuers to search the site for trapped casualties while they remain in a safe place. The research reported in this thesis aimed to un
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Pettersson, Emil. "Design of a drone system for maritime search and rescue missions." Thesis, KTH, Flygdynamik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-290180.

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The work summarized in this report aims to investigate how a drone airplane design can be optimized to create a safer and more efficient sea rescue by providing staff with an early picture, performing search missions and aiding communication through visual contact. A flying wing is in theory one of the most efficient designs for a fixed wing aircraft, at the same time as it also offers high structural efficiency for its given size. In this report, an overview of aerodynamics, stability and flying quality for a flying wing is discussed and analysed. XFLR5 was used for this project, and a compar
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Thornton, Daniel Richard. "Unusual-Object Detection in Color Video for Wilderness Search and Rescue." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2452.

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Aircraft-mounted cameras have potential to greatly increase the effectiveness of wilderness search and rescue efforts by collecting photographs or video of the search area. The more data that is collected, the more difficult it becomes to process it by visual inspection alone. This work presents a method for automatically detecting unusual objects in aerial video to assist people in locating signs of missing persons in wilderness areas. The detector presented here makes use of anomaly detection methods originally designed for hyperspectral imagery. Multiple anomaly detection methods are consid
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Fenimore, Carson D. "A Foveated System for Wilderness Search and Rescue in Manned Aircraft." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2744.

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Wilderness search and rescue can be assisted by video searchers in manned aircraft. The video searcher's primary task is to find clues on the ground. Due to altitude, it may be difficult to resolve details on the ground with a standard video camera. As the video streams at a constant frame rate, the searcher may become distracted by other tasks. While handling these tasks the searcher may miss important clues or spend extra time flying over the search area; either outcome decreases both the effectiveness of the video searcher and the chances of successfully finding missing persons. We develop
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Acuna, Virgilio. "Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wireless Localization in Search and Rescue." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3646.

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This thesis presents how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can successfully assist in search and rescue (SAR) operations using wireless localization. The zone-grid to partition to capture/detect WiFi probe requests follows the concepts found in Search Theory Method. The UAV has attached a sensor, e.g., WiFi sniffer, to capture/detect the WiFi probes from victims or lost people’s smartphones. Applying the Random-Forest based machine learning algorithm, an estimation of the user's location is determined with a 81.8% accuracy. UAV technology has shown limitations in the navigational performance and
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Nanjanath, Maitreyi. "Scale estimation by a robot in an urban search and rescue environment." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/519.

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Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) involves having to enter and explore partially collapsed buildings in search for victims trapped by the collapse. There are many hazards in doing this, because of the possibility of additional collapses, explosions, fires, or flooding of the area being searched. The use of robots for USAR would increase the safety of the operation for the humans involved, and make the operation faster, because the robots could penetrate areas inaccessible to human beings. Teleoperated robots have been deployed in USAR situations to explore confined spaces in the collapsed buildin
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Lit, Lisa. "Effects of training paradigms on performance of search dogs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2638.

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This thesis studies the performance of search dogs trained to locate the live scent (live only dogs) and compares their performance to that of search dogs trained to locate either live or cadaver scent depending on the verbal cue given by the handler (cross-trained dogs).
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Rasmussen, Nathan D. "Combined Visible and Infrared Video for Use in Wilderness Search and Rescue." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2854.pdf.

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Bishop, Jacob L. "Search Pattern Generation and Path Management for Search over Rough Terrain with a Small UAV." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2275.

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Search operations can be described by the interaction between three entities: the target, the sensor, and the environment. Past treatments of the search problem have focused primarily on the interaction between the sensor and the target. The effects that the environment has on the target and sensor have been greatly simplified or ignored completely. The wilderness search and rescue scenario is one case in which these interactions cannot be safely ignored. Using the wilderness search and rescue problem as our motivating example, we develop an algorithm for planning search paths for a small unma
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Pele, Odiase Oziegbe-orhuwa. "An active touch approach to object detection in urban search and rescue." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.493964.

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One of the fundamental challenges in robotics is object detection in unstructured environments which includes urban search and rescue (USAR). In these environments, objects' properties are not known a priori, vision is partially or totally impaired and sensing is susceptible to errors. Furthermore, the noncontact sensors such as sonar sensors, video cameras and infrared sensors used for object detection have limitations that make them inadequate for successful completion of object detection tasks in USAR. As a solution, the active touch approach for object detection is proposed.
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Sundqvist, Jacob, and Jonas Ekskog. "Victim Localization Using RF-signals and Multiple Agents in Search & Rescue." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-120620.

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A common problem in existing Search And Rescue (SAR) systems is that they must be activated by the missing person in order to work. This requires an awareness of the the risk of becoming distressed, which in many cases is not feasible. Furthermore, most of the localization systems require specialized hardware.In this thesis, the victim is assumed to wear a cellphone that could be located using readily available consumer electronics. A method of estimating the position of a transmitter, given radio signal measurements at different locations, is developed and verified with real and simulated dat
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Chua, Boon Heng. "INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE UNMANNED SYSTEMS IN AN URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE ENVIRONMENT." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/32805.

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In view of the local, regional and global security trends over the past decade, the threats of disaster to the populace inhabiting urbanized areas are real and there is a need for increased vigilance. There can be multiple causes for urban disaster natural disasters, terrorist attack and urban warfare are all viable. This thesis focused on the event in which an urban search and rescue operation is required due to the aftermath of a terrorist activity. Systems engineering techniques were utilized to analyze the problem space and suggested a plausible solution. Application of unmanned vehicles i
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Tatakis, Konstantinos. "Saving people: a comparative study of 2 European Search and Rescue Organizations." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21851.

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O'loughlin, Benjamin. "Evaluation of Search and Rescue Planning Tools on the West Florida Shelf." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6557.

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The Coast Guard conducts over 20,000 search and rescue cases a year with approximately 5% of them occurring within the coastal waters of the West Florida Shelf (WFS). Each search effort is planned using the Coast Guard’s Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) which uses model inputs to create composite probability distributions based on the results of Monte Carlo projections of thousands of particle trajectories. However, SAROPS is limited by the quality of model inputs and their associated errors. This study utilizes observations from three surface drifter deployments on the WFS t
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Kleiner, Alexander. "Mapping and exploration for search and rescue with humans and mobile robots." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007.

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Huang, Jyh-How. "Occasionally connected wireless sensor networks for search and rescue and wildlife monitoring." Connect to online resource, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3337106.

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Bin, Yusof Mohd Ismail. "The development of mobile robot platform for urban search and rescue environment." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5075/.

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Search and rescue (SAR) mission always takes place when disasters happen. Disaster could be defined into two categories, namely natural disaster and man-made disaster. Natural disasters normally cover a large area making the SAR mission’s team require an aerial view from airplane. This is because it changes the geographical landscape of the affected areas in huge perimeters. The impact is not only changing the whole landscapes, but it also impacts on residences, commercial buildings, transportations and communication infrastructures. This is always the primary reason of choosing an air vehicle
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