Wilderness search and rescue (WiSAR) has been one of the most significant robotic applications in the past decade. In order to succeed in these life-saving operations, the deployment of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has become an inevitable trend. This paper presents the development of a low-cost solution for semi-autonomous control of drones/UAVs in WiSAR applications. ArduPilot based flight controller was implemented to enable autonomous trajectory following of the drones/UAVs. A high resolution action camera attached to the drone/UAV was used to take video footage during the flight, which was related to the GPS location through the time stamp. The recorded video footage was manually transferred to a laptop for potential target detection using OpenCV and YOLOv3. The system design is reported in detail, and experiments were conducted to verify the effectiveness of the developed system.


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    Title :

    Semi-Autonomous Control of Drones/UAVs for Wilderness Search and Rescue


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    Publication date :

    2023-07-01


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    3368143 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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