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The Project PRISMA: Post-Disaster Assessment with UAVs

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Intelligent Autonomous Systems 14 (IAS 2016)

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In the context of emergency scenarios, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are extremely important instruments, in particular during monitoring tasks and in relation to the Post-Disaster assessment phase. The current paper describes a summary of the work performed during PRISMA [1], a project focused on the development and deployment of robots and autonomous systems able to operate in emergency scenarios, with a specific reference to monitoring and real-time intervention. Among other aspects, the investigation of strategies for mapping and for path following, for the implementation of Human-Swarm Interfaces and for the coverage of large areas have been performed, and they will be here summarized.

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  1. Università degli studi di Genova, DIBRIS Department, via all’Opera Pia 13, 16145, Genoa, Italy

    Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto & Antonio Sgorbissa

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  1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai, China

    Weidong Chen

  2. Osaka University , Osaka, Japan

    Koh Hosoda

  3. University of Padua , Padua, Italy

    Emanuele Menegatti

  4. Osaka University , Osaka, Japan

    Masahiro Shimizu

  5. Shanghai Jiao Tong University , Shanghai, China

    Hesheng Wang

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Recchiuto, C.T., Sgorbissa, A. (2017). The Project PRISMA: Post-Disaster Assessment with UAVs. In: Chen, W., Hosoda, K., Menegatti, E., Shimizu, M., Wang, H. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 14. IAS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 531. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48036-7_15

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