Development of robotic arm and gripper for unmanned ground vehicle in automotive application by Amirul Hafiz, Zexafiza

“…It can be used to assist safety authorities to pick object and place it in the desire place and to make search and rescue operations. The project aims to control and safety purpose. …”
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Through-Wall Multiple Targets Vital Signs Tracking Based on VMD Algorithm by Jiaming Yan, Hong Hong, Heng Zhao, Yusheng Li, Chen Gu, Xiaohua Zhu

“…For the multiple targets’ vital signs tracking issues like urban search and rescue missions, our algorithm has superior capability in most detection applications.…”
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Coordinating Tethered Autonomous Underwater Vehicles towards Entanglement-Free Navigation by Abhishek Patil, Myoungkuk Park, Jungyun Bae

“…Thus, if one can overcome the entanglement issues while utilizing multiple tethered vehicles, the potential applications of the system increase including ecosystem exploration, infrastructure inspection, maintenance, search and rescue, underwater construction, and surveillance. …”
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REAL-TIME LIDAR-INERTIAL POSITIONING AND MAPPING FOR FORESTRY AUTOMATION by T. Faitli, T. Hakala, H. Kaartinen, J. Hyyppä, A. Kukko

“…Positioning is vital in any forestry automation application, such as collecting inventory, harvesting, or search and rescue missions. Lidar and inertial based solutions are popular, however they often obtain real-time computation by effectively compressing the number of measurement points to track utilizing regular geometric shapes that do not adapt well to forest. …”
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Development of an automated human scent olfactometer and its use to evaluate detection dog perception of human scent. by Edgar O Aviles-Rosa, Andrea C Medrano, Ariela Cantu, Paola A Prada-Tiedemann, Michele N Maughan, Jenna D Gadberry, Robin R Greubel, Nathaniel J Hall

“…In Experiment 1 and 2, the AHSO was validated by testing two dogs naïve to HS (Experiment 1) and five certified Search and Rescue (SAR) teams naïve to the apparatus (Experiment 2). …”
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Moving People Tracking and False Track Removing with Infrared Thermal Imaging by a Multirotor by Seokwon Yeom

“…Infrared (IR) thermal imaging can detect the warm temperature of the human body regardless of the light conditions, thus small drones equipped with the IR thermal camera can be utilized to recognize human activity for smart surveillance, road safety, and search and rescue missions. However, the unpredictable motion of the drone poses more challenges than a fixed camera. …”
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On Slip Detection for Quadruped Robots by Ylenia Nisticò, Shamel Fahmi, Lucia Pallottino, Claudio Semini, Geoff Fink

“…Legged robots are meant to autonomously navigate unstructured environments for applications like search and rescue, inspection, or maintenance. In autonomous navigation, a close relationship between locomotion and perception is crucial; the robot has to perceive the environment and detect any change in order to autonomously make decisions based on what it perceived. …”
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The Roles of Social Worker During Flood Disaster Management in Dayeuhkolot District Bandung Indonesia by MD Kamrujjaman, Binahayati Rusyidi, Oekan Abdoellah, Nunung Nurwati

“…The result of the study shows that the roles of the social worker in the during-disaster phase are catalyst includes evacuation and search and rescue, advocate includes creating a support group, facilitator for fundraising, outreach for social service provider and community health worker, supervisor, volunteer, and coordinator. …”
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Organization of training of emercom cadets to conduct emergency rescue operations in a fire by V. V. Bulgakov

“…The most difficult types of rescue operations are opening and disassembling the building and technological structures, which are held to ensure the penetration of fire in hard to reach areas of buildings, reconnaissance, search and rescue, the extinguishing means to eliminate burning.Materials and Methods. …”
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Bimodal environment perception technology for underground coal mine based on radar and visual fusion by YANG Zhifang

“…It effectively improves the perception capability of underground environment in coal mines, providing technical support for application scenarios such as coal mine road environment perception, visual measurement systems, unmanned mining vehicle navigation systems, and mine search and rescue robots.…”
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Sensor Fusion-Based Cooperative Trail Following for Autonomous Multi-Robot System by Mingyang Geng, Shuqi Liu, Zhaoxia Wu

“…In contrast, many robotic tasks in reality, such as search and rescue, are conducted by a group of robots. …”
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DeepBrain: Experimental Evaluation of Cloud-Based Computation Offloading and Edge Computing in the Internet-of-Drones for Deep Learning Applications by Anis Koubaa, Adel Ammar, Mahmoud Alahdab, Anas Kanhouch, Ahmad Taher Azar

“…Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been very effective in collecting aerial images data for various Internet-of-Things (IoT)/smart cities applications such as search and rescue, surveillance, vehicle detection, counting, intelligent transportation systems, to name a few. …”
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Path Planning and Collision Risk Management Strategy for Multi-UAV Systems in 3D Environments by Blanca López, Javier Muñoz, Fernando Quevedo, Concepción A. Monje, Santiago Garrido, Luis E. Moreno

“…Multi-UAV systems are attracting, especially in the last decade, the attention of researchers and companies of very different fields due to the great interest in developing systems capable of operating in a coordinated manner in complex scenarios and to cover and speed up applications that can be dangerous or tedious for people: search and rescue tasks, inspection of facilities, delivery of goods, surveillance, etc. …”
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A Sensor-Network-Supported Mobile-Agent-Search Strategy for Wilderness Rescue by Jason Chong Lee Shin, Zendai Kashino, Goldie Nejat, Beno Benhabib

“…Mobile target search is a problem pertinent to a variety of applications, including wilderness search and rescue. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for target search utilizing a team of mobile agents supported by a network of static sensors. …”
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Viability and Performance Analysis, at a Physical Level, of a Maritime Communication Network on Medium Frequency by Alfonso-Isidro López-Diaz, Miguel A. Gutiérrez, Andrés Ortega Piris, Emma Díaz-Ruiz-Navamuel, David Rodríguez-Rosa

“…It was thanks to them that we gathered real-time information about the nationwide maritime traffic that navigated through the Spanish Search and Rescue jurisdiction waters from 2018 to 2020.…”
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Implementing Mitigations for Improving Societal Acceptance of Urban Air Mobility by Ender Çetin, Alicia Cano, Robin Deransy, Sergi Tres, Cristina Barrado

“…Nowadays, drones of various types and sizes are used for many purposes, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue missions, aerial photography, shipping and delivery, etc. …”
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New Learning Methods for Marine Oil Spill Response Training by Justiina Halonen, Antti Lanki, Emmi Rantavuo

“…In addition, they assist in other types of maritime incidents, such as search and rescue operations and fire-fighting on board. …”
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A Review on Communications Perspective of Flying Ad-Hoc Networks: Key Enabling Wireless Technologies, Applications, Challenges and Open Research Topics by Fazal Noor, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Ali Al-Zahrani, Insaf Ullah, Kawther A. Al-Dhlan

“…If national legislations permit UAVs to operate autonomously, one will see the skies become populated with many small UAVs, each one performing various tasks such as mail and package delivery, traffic monitoring, event filming, surveillance, search and rescue, and other applications. Thus, advancing to multiple small UAVs from a single large UAV has resulted in a new clan of networks known as flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs). …”
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Optimal UAV Hangar Locations for Emergency Services Considering Restricted Areas by Hannes Braßel, Thomas Zeh, Hartmut Fricke, Anette Eltner

“…With unmanned aerial vehicle(s) (UAV), swift responses to urgent needs (such as search and rescue missions or medical deliveries) can be realized. …”
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A Constrained Fuzzy Control for Robotic Systems by Wenkui Xue, Baozhi Zhou, Fenghua Chen, Hamid Taghavifar, Ardashir Mohammadzadeh, Ebrahim Ghaderpour

“…The use of wheeled mobile robots (MRs) with symmetrical structure in engineering is rapidly increasing, with applications in various fields, such as industry, agriculture, forestry, healthcare, mining, rehabilitation, search and rescue, household tasks, remote locations, and entertainment. …”
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