Over the past several decades, the extent and severity of wildfires in the United States has increased dramatically. This, accordingly, has put ever-increasing pressure on wildland firefighters to mitigate the effects of fire damage. Wildland firefighters have exceptionally dangerous and strenuous jobs. The United States Forest Service has an interest to develop an autonomous sUAS logistics payload delivery system to transport supplies to crews on the fireline. A design reference mission which includes the transportation of portable drinking water from a helicopter drop site closer to crews on the fire line was developed. Two delivery methods were designed and prototyped within this project, with one of them tested in flight.


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    Title :

    Semi-Autonomous Transportation of Emergency Supplies via sUAS


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2023-07-01


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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