Cooperative Control of Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for Wildfire Management

野火监测和战斗需要关于野火蔓延地点和方式的近实时信息，以便有效规划和执行应急战略。现有的基于卫星的野火探测成像方法可能不足以提供动态火锋蔓延所需的实时信息。此外，通过有人驾驶航空进行火情检查可能会使飞行员处于危险之中，或者操作可能受到资源或天气条件的限制。随着无人驾驶车辆系统（UVS）技术的发展，世界各地的研究人员一直在探索无人驾驶车辆的使用，通常包括无人驾驶飞行器（uav）和地面车辆（ugv），以提供实时野火监测。

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.