COOPERATIVE AND INTELLIGENT UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE APPLICATIONS

气候变化现在是我们自然世界面临的最大威胁之一，并导致许多极端天气事件，洪水，野火和热浪。无人机（UAV）是用于应急响应应用（ERA）的有前途的技术，以提供更高效、更快速的服务来拯救生命和减少经济损失。该项目旨在为电子逆向拍卖开发一种创新的合作、互联和智能无人机（CIU），通过CIU的有效通信和控制，可以共享和利用来自单个无人机的传感和计算资源以及飞行信息。具体而言，上下文感知和面向服务的无人机到一切（U2 X）网络，鲁棒的合作无人机传感和计算（CSC）计划和智能合作无人机控制策略的电子逆向拍卖将进行研究。创建了一个由世界领先的学术机构和著名的工业伙伴组成的国际跨部门和跨学科联盟，以合作开发电子逆向拍卖中的新型CIU技术。尖端的通信网络，边缘计算，协作传感，智能控制和机器学习相关技术将被研究，以应对相关的挑战。凭借合作伙伴的专业知识和广泛的国际研究合作经验，该项目将促进研究创新，促进知识共享，提高参与研究人员的潜力，并为欧洲在无人机，合作传感和计算，多智能体控制，信息和通信技术（ICT）和应急响应领域的领导地位做出贡献。开发的CIU技术和应用不仅适用于各种ERA，如洪水，野火和地震;而且还可以扩展到其他应用，如智慧城市，公共安全，农业和更广泛的科学界。

The climate change is now one of the biggest threats faced by our natural world and leads to many extreme weather events, flooding, wildfires and heatwaves. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the promising technologies for the emergency response applications (ERAs) to provide more efficient and faster services to save lives and reduce economic loss. This project aims to develop an innovative cooperative, connected and intelligent UAVs (CIUs) for ERAs, where sensing and computing resources, and flying information from individual UAV could be shared and exploited through effective communications and control of the CIUs. Specifically, context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything (U2X) networks; robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing (CSC) schemes and intelligent cooperative UAV control strategies for ERAs will be investigated. An international inter-sector and inter-disciplinary consortium consisting of world leading academic institutions and prominent industrial partners is created to collaborate on developing novel CIU technologies in ERAs. Cutting-edge communications networks, edge computing, cooperative sensing, intelligent control, and machine learning related technologies will be investigated to tackle the associated challenges. With competent and complementary expertise of the partners and their extensive international research collaboration experience, this project will promote research innovation, foster knowledge sharing, enhance the potentials of participating researchers, and contribute to the European leadership in the UAVs, cooperative sensing and computing, multi-agent control, information and communications technology (ICT), and emergency response sectors. The developed CIU technologies and applications are not only applicable in various ERAs, like flooding, wildfires, and earthquake; but can also be readily extended to other applications, such as smart cities, public safety, agriculture, and the wider scientific community.