Final Year Project

Project Title

Autonomous Disaster Drones for Pre-Rescue Mapping of Interior Environments

Description

This project deals with the design of Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (AUV) for disaster applications. We specifically deal with the response phase of the disaster life cycle, studying the effects of an autonomous robotic intervention on the standard operating procedures of first responders in search and rescue missions. The idea revolves around the framework of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping and efficient path planning, in order to identify human survivors in complex environments. We carry out a systematic study to test out state-of-the-art algorithms in the above-mentioned topics, and build an end-to-end pipeline deployable on commercially available drones. We validate the pipeline on Robot operating system (ROS) with Gazebo.