COVER: 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。无人驾驶飞行器（uav）是应急响应应用（ERAs）中很有前途的技术，可以提供更高效、更快速的服务，以挽救生命和减少经济损失。该项目旨在为era开发一种创新的协作、互联和智能无人机（ciu），其中可以通过有效的通信和控制ciu共享和利用来自单个无人机的传感和计算资源和飞行信息。具体来说，上下文感知和面向服务的无人机到一切（U2X）网络；研究了面向era的鲁棒协同无人机感知与计算（CSC）方案和智能协同无人机控制策略。成立了一个由世界领先的学术机构和杰出的工业伙伴组成的国际跨部门和跨学科联盟，共同开发era中的新型CIU技术。将研究尖端通信网络、边缘计算、协同传感、智能控制和机器学习相关技术，以应对相关挑战。凭借合作伙伴的能力和互补的专业知识及其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，增强参与研究人员的潜力，并有助于欧洲在无人机、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。开发的CIU技术和应用不仅适用于各种灾害，如洪水、野火和地震；但也可以很容易地扩展到其他应用，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.