TY - GEN
T1 - UAS-Rx interface for mission planning, fire tracking, fire ignition, and real-time updating
AU - Beachly, Evan
AU - Detweiler, Carrick
AU - Elbaum, Sebastian
AU - Twidwell, Dirac
AU - Duncan, Brittany
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/10/26
Y1 - 2017/10/26
N2 - This paper presents the development of an interface for small Unmanned Aerial Systems to allow the deployment of ignition spheres at a prescribed fire, real-time fire modeling, and user updates to the automated fire model. Current systems are limited to fire monitoring or modeling, generally rely on a desktop computer, and do not allow updates to the model nor parameter adjustments in the field. The novelty in the current approach is in enabling user control of all aspects of flight, including take-off, waypoint navigation, payload delivery, and landing from the interface while also allowing fire modeling and incorporating this information into the flight planning to increase safety and effectiveness of the vehicle. This system will allow fire experts to reach previously inaccessible terrain to ignite controlled burns, model fire progression through novel terrain and vegetation to improve current models, and allow team members to maintain higher levels of situation awareness through the ability to project fire spread at future times. Initial user testing at a 40 acre prescribed burn shows that the model is considerably more accurate with user corrections, and that even half the user corrections dramatically reduced the distance between the projected and actual fire lines. Future tests are planned with more users in challenging terrain to provide new information to the fire management communities.
AB - This paper presents the development of an interface for small Unmanned Aerial Systems to allow the deployment of ignition spheres at a prescribed fire, real-time fire modeling, and user updates to the automated fire model. Current systems are limited to fire monitoring or modeling, generally rely on a desktop computer, and do not allow updates to the model nor parameter adjustments in the field. The novelty in the current approach is in enabling user control of all aspects of flight, including take-off, waypoint navigation, payload delivery, and landing from the interface while also allowing fire modeling and incorporating this information into the flight planning to increase safety and effectiveness of the vehicle. This system will allow fire experts to reach previously inaccessible terrain to ignite controlled burns, model fire progression through novel terrain and vegetation to improve current models, and allow team members to maintain higher levels of situation awareness through the ability to project fire spread at future times. Initial user testing at a 40 acre prescribed burn shows that the model is considerably more accurate with user corrections, and that even half the user corrections dramatically reduced the distance between the projected and actual fire lines. Future tests are planned with more users in challenging terrain to provide new information to the fire management communities.
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U2 - 10.1109/SSRR.2017.8088142
DO - 10.1109/SSRR.2017.8088142
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040248586
T3 - SSRR 2017 - 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, Conference
SP - 67
EP - 74
BT - SSRR 2017 - 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 15th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2017
Y2 - 11 October 2017 through 13 October 2017
ER -