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Autonomous aerial mapping and its applications for emergency response

Authors
  1. Rowan Border
  2. Jonathan D. Gammell
Publication Date
Abstract

Navigating unknown structures (e.g., buildings or caves) can be a dangerous and challenging task for emergency responders. This risk can be reduced by capturing detailed 3D maps of unseen environments with a robotic sensor platform and using them to assess and visualise the unknown structures. Many existing approaches require offline processing or human oversight to produce high-fidelity maps, which precludes their use in real-time scenarios with limited communication. This paper investigates the use of an autonomous aerial mapping solution that could capture detailed 3D maps of unknown structures in real-time without requiring human intervention.

Publication Details
Type
Abstract-Refereed Conference Paper
Conference
Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems for Emergency Response, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week
Pages
19–23
Digital Object IdentifierDOI
10.1109/CPS-ER56134.2022.00010
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BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{border_cpser22,
author = {Rowan Border and Jonathan D Gammell},
title = {Autonomous aerial mapping and its applications for emergency response},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems for Emergency Response, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things ({CPS-IoT}) Week},
year = {2022},
pages = {19--23},
month = {3 } # may,
doi = {10.1109/CPS-ER56134.2022.00010},
}