EAGER: Aerial Communication Infrastructure for Smart Emergency Response

该项目利用了灵活、低成本、无人机携带的宽带远程通信基础设施的早期概念，并研究了其在应急响应中即时智能城市应用的能力。这项工作是为了支持智能应急系统（Sers）集群参加全球城市团队挑战赛。该项目将通过快速部署宽带通信基础设施，对消防和其他智能城市应急响应应用产生直接影响，从而提高急救人员的效率并挽救生命。该通信基础设施扩展了单个无人机的能力，并为智能城市提供了广泛的新的多无人机应用，并有可能创造新的业务和就业市场。这个跨学科项目解决了以下技术问题：1）开发网络物理系统（CPS）技术，实现强大的远程无人机对无人机通信基础设施; 2）用于WiFi提供的实用无人机系统设计和性能评估; 3）通过分析和参与消防演习，作为案例研究，系统地调查其满足智能城市应急响应需求的能力。项目团队包括一个学术机构、技术公司和政府规划人员，每个人都提供了对项目成功至关重要的互补专业知识和观点。该项目还为学生和社区提供了令人兴奋的跨学科培训机会，以学习CPS技术和全球城市团队挑战赛的努力。

This project exploits an early concept of a flexible, low-cost, and drone-carried broadband long-distance communication infrastructure and investigates its capability for immediate smart-city application in emergency response. This effort is to support the Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) cluster to participate in the Global City Teams Challenge. This project will have an immediate impact in firefighting and other smart-city emergency response applications by quickly deploying a broadband communication infrastructure, thus improving the efficiency of first responders and saving lives. This communication infrastructure expands the capability of individual drones and enables broad new multi-drone applications for smart cities and has the potential to create new businesses and job markets.This interdisciplinary project addresses the following technology issues: 1) development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) technology that enables robust long-range drone-to-drone communication infrastructure; 2) practical drone system design and performance evaluation for WiFi provision; and 3) a systematic investigation of its capability to address smart-city emergency response needs, through both analysis and participation in fire-fighting exercises, as a case study. The project team includes an academic institution, technology companies and government planners, each of whom provides complementary expertise and perspectives that are crucial to the success of the project. The project also provides exciting interdisciplinary training opportunities for students and the community to learn CPS technologies and the Global City Teams Challenge efforts.