Cooperative Control of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for Wildfire Management

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Wildfire monitoring and fighting requires near real-time information on where and how wildfires spread in order to effectively plan and execute emergency response strategies. Existing satellite-based imaging methods of wildfire detection may not be sufficient enough to provide the required real time information on the spread of dynamic fire fronts. Also, the fire situation inspection through piloted aviation may put pilots at risk, or the operations maybe limited by the resources or weather conditions. With recent developments in unmanned vehicle systems (UVS) technology, researchers around the world have been exploring the use of unmanned vehicles, often including both unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and ground vehicles (UGVs), to provide real-time wildfire monitoring.