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- 1. Drones for Disasters SkyTech2016 Andrew Heaton 27/01/2016
- 2. Introduction • UCLan &Civic Drone Centre • Disaster Robotics • Current Use of Drones in Disasters • Issues with Using Drone in Disasters • Where Next? • Questions
- 3. University of CentralLancashire • UCLan • Preston, Lancashire – Burnley – Westlakes – Cyprus – Partner Collages • ~30,000 Students
- 4. Civic Drone Centre •Multidisciplinary Approach – Collaboration • Media Innovation Studio • Engineering Innovation Centre – Other Schools • Industry Facing – Government, Industry (large and small), NGOs • CAA Training – With The Great Circle NQE – www.uace.uk
- 5. Civic Drone CentreProjects • aeroSee – Crowdsourced S&R • Serious Gaming – Rehabilitation with Drones • Wildlife Tracking – Smart Tags & Drone • DroneHack – www.dronehack.org • Water Rescue – Locate People at Sea And more…
- 6. Disasters • Natural – Earthquakes –Floods – Volcanoes – Fire • Manmade – Nuclear – Chemical – Fire – Humanitarian
- 7. Disaster Robotics • Theuse of robots & remotely controlled vehicles to aid in Disaster Situations – Includes Drones – Monitoring the Situation – Search & Rescue • Dependent on the Disaster – What the Disaster is – Environment • Land, Sea, Urban, Rural, Hot, Cold
- 8. Dull, Dirty &Dangerous • Robots are Suited for DDD Tasks • Dull – Long – Monotonous – Repetitive • Dirty – Nuclear – Biological – Chemical • Dangerous – Hazardous to Humans
- 9. What is Available& Uses • Commercially Available Drones • Equipped with Cameras – Optical – Thermal Imaging – Geo-Tagging • Aerial Perspective – Scale • Create Maps – 2D, 3D • Search & Rescue – People Looking at the Photos – Computer Program
- 10. Advantages of Drones •Can be Used: – Before • Mapping & Surveys of Disaster Prone Areas – During • Search & Rescue, Mapping & Survey for Situational Awareness – After • Mapping & Survey, Infrastructure Inspection • Easy to Deploy • Quick to Deploy • Relatively Cheap • Provides Up-To-Date Information • Publicity, Advocacy Hebden Bridge and Mytholmroyd - 2015
- 11. Issues • Regulations – Differentfrom Country to County • Need Training – Use of UAVs – S&R or Humanitarian • Infrastructure Issues – Power – Communications – Road • Coordination of UAV Teams – Between UAV Teams – With Humanitarian Teams – Government Organisations • War Zones • Ethics
- 12. UAViators • Humanitarian UAV Network –www.uaviators.org – Promote the use of UAV is Humanitarian Settings • Coordinate UAV Teams – Nepal Earth Quakes • Resources • Organise Meetings
- 13. Guidelines for HumanitarianUAV Missions • Bellagio, Italy, June 2015 – International Policy Forum – 3 Days – UN, Red Cross, DJI, ICT4Peace, ,Universities… • MIT, October 2015 – Reviewed – Send to Orgs. • World Humanitarian Summit 2016 – Launched – www.worldhumanitarians ummit.org Draft Key Guidelines 1. Code of Conduct 2. Data Ethics 3. Community Engagement 4. Principled Partnerships 5. Conflict Sensitivity http://ow.ly/WZH3j
- 14. Other Humanitarian/S&R Efforts •Texas A&M, Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue – www.crasar.org • OCHA: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Humanitarian Response – http://ow.ly/WZIOH • FSD, Drones for Humanitarian and Environmental Purposes – http://drones.fsd.ch/
- 15. Where Next? UAViators: HumanitarianUAV Policy Forum, Bellagio
- 16. Delivery Drones • VariousProjects Underway – Amazon Prime Air – Matternet – DHL – Droneports • New Infrastructure – Could be Effected by Disasters • Uses in Disasters – Food – Medicine – Information
- 17. Technology Research Directions •Higher Autonomy & Automation – UAVs – Identifications of Humans • More Specialist UAVs – Incorporating Specific Sensors – Custom Hardware & Software • Multiple UAVs – Cooperating – Communicating • Collaboration with Humanitarian and Search & Rescue Organisation – What needs are – What the technology can do Penn State
- 18. aeroSee • Crowdsourced Search& Rescue – Photos Take & Tagged with GPS – Distributed to “Virtual Search Agents" via the Internet – Tag the Photo is they See a Person • Use with any Drone – Which Meet Requirements • Design of the Year 2014 • www.aerosee.org
- 19. aeroSee Trials • LakeDistrict, UK, 2013 – Staged Rescue – Proof of Concept – Open to the Public – Patterdale Mountain Res – Emigs • Sotra, Norway, 2015 – Real Search – Closed to S&R Professionals – IRIS Group – Feedback Survey
- 20. aeroSee Interface • Yes/No •Tap/Click to Zoom – Lat, Long, Alt
- 21. Next Steps foraeroSee • More Trials Planned this Year – February? • Planning to Grow the Community – Virtual Search Agents – Organisations • Use aeroSee to Teach Learning Algorithms • Open aeroSee to all
- 22. • 1 or2 Days Participants Design & Build a Drone • 2 DroneHacks in 2015 – Humanitarian Theme – 2 More planned for 2016 • Rapid Innovation – Not Final Products • Bringing Different Groups Together – S&R Professionals – Hackers/Makers – UAV Companies • Provide All the Kit Needed – Drone, Micro-Computers, Sensors, Tools • Free to Participants • Open-Innovation • Win the Golden Drone Trophy • www.dronehack.org
- 23. Ideas from theDroneHacks • DroneHack – June 2015 – 1 Day, 2 Teams – Ideas: • Drone to carry & drop a lifering guided by an infrared array • Drone to detect chemicals when barrel bombs • DroneHack 2.0 – September 2016 – 2 Days, 2 Teams • Drone to pick up infrared beacons on lifejackets • Drone to relay messages via screen and create a wifi- network
- 24. Project SAFER • UAVPilot Authentication System, Which Logs And Communicates Flight Data – A Digital Black Box. • Intelligent Knowledge Based System & Encryption Technologies • Ensures Currency of UAV Pilots & Ensures Maintenance Schedules are Adhered to • Can Demonstrate Commitment to Flight Safety & Transparency in their Operations. • Provides Geographic Location Data for UAVs & Other Mission Critical Data.
- 25. Summary • Commercially AvailableProducts Can be Used – Drones – Cameras – Software – Delivery??? • There are Issues – Many similar with the rest of the industry • UAViators – Resources • Guidelines on Use of Drones for Humanitarian Use – There are some already – World Humanitarian Summit 2016 • More aeroSee Development – www.aerosee.org • More DroneHacks – Development of some of the Ideas • Other Projects Which Could Help – Project SAFER – Tank Inspection – Tomorrow at 14:30
- 26. Thank You forListening aheaton3@uclan.ac.uk CivicDroneCentre@uclan.ac.uk www.uclan.ac.uk www.civicdronecentre.org @uclan @CivicDrone @drone_hack #dronesforgood