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ICRA
2005
IEEE
166views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Cooperative Fire Detection using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
– The paper presents a framework for cooperative fire detection by means of a fleet of heterogeneous UAVs. Computer vision techniques are used to detect and localize fires from i...
Luis Merino, Fernando Caballero, J. Ramiro Martine...
IJSYSC
2006
86views more  IJSYSC 2006»
13 years 3 months ago
Cooperative forest fire surveillance using a team of small unmanned air vehicles
The objective of this paper is to explore the feasibility of using multiple low-altitude, short endurance (LASE) unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to cooperatively monitor and track th...
David W. Casbeer, Derek B. Kingston, Randal W. Bea...
GECCO
2008
Springer
143views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Collective intelligence and bush fire spotting
Bush fires cause major damage each year in many areas of the world and the earlier that they can be detected the easier it is to minimize this damage. This paper describes a coll...
David Howden, Tim Hendtlass
ICRA
2005
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 9 months ago
Obstacle Detection for Small Autonomous Aircraft Using Sky Segmentation
– A vision-based obstacle detection system for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is presented. Obstacles are detected by segmenting the image into sky and non-sky regions and...
Tim G. McGee, Raja Sengupta, J. Karl Hedrick
ICRA
2010
IEEE
128views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Detecting anomalies in unmanned vehicles using the Mahalanobis distance
The use of unmanned autonomous vehicles is becoming more and more significant in recent years. The fact that the vehicles are unmanned (whether autonomous or not), can lead to gre...
Raz Lin, Eliahu Khalastchi, Gal A. Kaminka