Analysis and Simulation of a Pan Tilt Platform Based on Linear Model by Imran S. Sarwar, Afzaal M. Malik

“…Such applications include target acquisition, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, border patrol, maritime security, search and rescue, and environmental monitoring. Also, several applications for this device exist both in law enforcement and in entertainment. …”
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Empowering Aid Personnel That Respond to Disasters by Vedat Işıkhan

“…Our findings from the disaster mental health literature indicate that the rescue team that performs the first responders has a risk for negative psychological consequences as they are directly and continuously exposed to traumatic experiences after intervening in disasters. Aid personnel (search and rescue team, firefighters, support groups, etc.) who immediately respond to disasters and assist victims may face various problems after disaster. …”
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Learning degradation-aware visual prompt for maritime image restoration under adverse weather conditions by Xin He, Tong Jia, Junjie Li

“…Adverse weather conditions such as rain and haze often lead to a degradation in the quality of maritime images, which is crucial for activities like navigation, fishing, and search and rescue. Therefore, it is of great interest to develop an effective algorithm to recover high-quality maritime images under adverse weather conditions. …”
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Crash 2 Squash: An Autonomous Drone for the Traversal of Narrow Passageways by Amedeo Fabris, Emanuele Aucone, Stefano Mintchev

“…Access and exploration of confined and cluttered spaces is a major challenge in search and rescue, maintenance of infrastructures, and environmental monitoring. …”
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Dynamic Simulation of a Mobile Manipulator with Joint Friction by V. Chacko, Z.A. Khan

“…Mission criticality in disaster search and rescue robotics highlights the requirement of specialized equipment. …”
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UAV Formation Trajectory Planning Algorithms: A Review by Yunhong Yang, Xingzhong Xiong, Yuehao Yan

“…With the continuous development of UAV technology and swarm intelligence technology, the UAV formation cooperative mission has attracted wide attention because of its remarkable function and flexibility to complete complex and changeable tasks, such as search and rescue, resource exploration, reconnaissance and surveillance. …”
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A survey on autonomous environmental monitoring approaches: towards unifying active sensing and reinforcement learning by David Mansfield, Allahyar Montazeri

“…This framework allows unification with multiple essential environmental monitoring tasks and algorithms such as coverage, patrolling, source seeking, exploration and search and rescue. The unified framework represents a step towards bridging the divide between theoretical advancements in reinforcement learning and real-world applications in environmental monitoring. …”
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Face Verification Algorithms for UAV Applications: An Empirical Comparative Analysis by Julio Diez-Tomillo, Jose M. Alcaraz-Calero, Qi Wang

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are revolutionising diverse computer vision use case domains, from public safety surveillance to Search and Rescue (SAR), and other emergency management and disaster relief operations. …”
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Cognitive-Social Robotics: Mysteries and Needs by Ali Meghdari, Minoo Alemi

“…In recent years robotic technology has extended its applications beyond the factory and is now used for more general-purpose practices in society, such as in clinical affairs and rehabilitation, child and elderly care, search and rescue operations, and many other areas. However for robotic technology to be successful in such fields, it is necessary to reach new levels of ability, robustness, physical skills, cognitive ability and intelligence. …”
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Collaborative 3D Scene Reconstruction in Large Outdoor Environments Using a Fleet of Mobile Ground Robots by John Lewis, Pedro U. Lima, Meysam Basiri

“…Teams of mobile robots can be employed in many outdoor applications, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, and industrial inspection, allowing an efficient and robust exploration of large areas and enhancing the operators’ situational awareness. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis and System Attribute Importance for Conceptual Aircraft Design with the Advanced Morphological Approach by Vladislav T. Todorov, Dmitry Rakov, Andreas Bardenhagen

“…This is demonstrated on the data from a previously conducted AMA workshop on the conceptual design of a search and rescue aircraft.…”
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Beamforming Optimization in Internet of Things Applications Using Robust Swarm Algorithm in Conjunction with Connectable and Collaborative Sensors by Mohammed Zaki Hasan, Hussain Al-Rizzo

“…The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically involves multihop relaying combined with sophisticated signal processing to serve as an information provider for several applications such as smart grids, industrial, and search-and-rescue operations. These applications entail deploying many sensors in environments that are often random which motivated the study of beamforming using random geometric topologies. …”
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Remote cardiac monitoring using radar by Burnham, Jonathan S

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Autonomous multi-robot navigation and mapping for swarm applications by Teoh, Chee Sern

“…Swarm exploration is a significant area of robotics research that has practical applications in search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and surveillance. …”
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Human-robot interaction by Dai, Siyang

“…Robots are generally seen in factories but more and more commonly they are found in areas like search and rescue, scientific exploration, mine and bomb detection, military battle, entertainment, law enforcement and hospital care. …”
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Indoor wireless positioning by Yong, Alex

“…IWP will become more popular and demanding for those who need to navigate within the big malls looking for direction such as Modern warfare where indoor war fighting more commonly in urban area to emergency situations for rescue team to evacuate or for search and rescue mission. Commercial and leisure purpose could also benefit from IWP for easy location and navigate to retails and services shops in big malls. …”
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Pedestrian dead reckoning with wearable sensors: a systematic review by Bergmann, J, Hou, X

“…Self-contained PDR systems do not require an infrastructure, thus they can be used for rapid deployment in situations such as search and rescue, disaster relief or medical emergencies. …”

Design and development of Spherical Amphibian Vehicle (SAV) by Bahar, Mohd. Bazli, Mohd. Aras, Mohd. Shahrieel, Abdullah, Shahrum Shah, Ng, Sin San, Md. Zain, Zainah, Yusof, Ahmad Anas, Mohd. Tumari, Mohd. Zaidi

“…SAV has a wide range of applications in scientific research and military activities such as ocean exploration and search and rescue missions. However, motion control of a spherical robot is a very challenging task because of the nonlinearity of the robot system, time-variance, uncertainty external disturbances and difficulty in hydrodynamic modelling. …”

Modelling and manual tuning PID control of quadcopter by Sahrir, Nur Hayati, Mohd. Basri, Mohd. Ariffanan

“…There are vast applications of quadcopter such as aerial photography and videography, involved in search and rescue missions, spying and more. A quadcopter is under-actuated where there are six types of motion but only has four rotors to control the motions. …”

Adaptive PID control via sliding mode for position tracking of quadrotor MAV: Simulation and real-time experiment evaluation by Noordin, Aminurrashid, Mohd. Basri, Mohd. Ariffanan, Mohamed, Zaharuddin

“…The study provides evidence of the potential of the APID control scheme in enhancing the resilience and stability of MAVs, making them suitable for various applications including surveillance, search and rescue, and environmental monitoring.…”
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