Cooperative and Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Emergency Response Applications

It will create a context-aware and service-oriented UAV-to-everything network, as well as robust cooperative UAV sensing and computing schemes and intelligent cooperative UAV control strategies. By leveraging cutting-edge technologies, the project seeks to enhance the potential of participating researchers, promote research innovation, and contribute to European leadership in UAVs. The technologies and applications will have broad applications in various ERAs, as well as in public safety and agriculture.

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.