Probabilistic Planning for Maritime Search and Rescue
Abstract
Maritime accidents cause thousands of disappearances every year, with migrant crossings being particularly dangerous and under-reported. Current coastal and NGO search and rescue services are unable to provide a timely response, so new technologies such as autonomous UAVs are needed. We present a thorough formalization of the maritime search and rescue problem considering its time-critical and probabilistic nature. Further, we introduce a method for determining the optimal search altitude for any aerial thermal-based detection system, so as to maximize overall mission success.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2023
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2306.03871
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2306.03871
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230603871M
- Keywords:
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- Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control
- E-Print:
- 4 pages. 3 figures. To appear in 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters (DOD 2023)