Preliminary results on UAV-based forest fire localization based on decisional navigation

A. Belbachir, J. Escareno, E. Rubio, H. Sossa

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Abstract

Efficient localization of forest-fires based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represents valuable assessment. Due to the fast deployment of UAVs, it is practical to use them. For forest fire detection purposes, usually the area to explore is unknown, thus existing strategies use an automatic coverage exploration strategy. However, such approach is not efficient in terms of exploration time since the mission execution and achievement in an unknown environment that needs a strong vehicle decision and control. Based on this observation, we improved the localization mission by a decision-based strategy resulting from a probabilistic model based on the temperature in order to estimate the distance towards the forest-fire. The UAV optimizes its trajectory according to the state of the forest-fire knowledge by using a map to represent its knowledge and updates it at each step of its exploration. We show in this paper that our planning and control methodology for forest-fire localization is efficient. Simulation results are carried out to evaluate the proposed methodology and approves our claim.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages377-382
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781509017843
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Mar 2016
Event2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015 - Cancun, Mexico
Duration: 23 Nov 201525 Nov 2015

Publication series

Name2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015

Conference

Conference2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, RED-UAS 2015
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancun
Period23/11/1525/11/15

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