Sucessful Initiation of Unmanned Aerial Systems for the Support of See Rescue Operations
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In the case of the detection and rescue of shipwrecked people, every minute counts. Often, the voice-radio-based distress message is imprecise and does not contain all the necessary information for an efficient local rescue operation. This is exactly the point where the research project "LARUS - Lageunterstützung bei Seenoteinsätzen durch unbemannte Luftfahrtsysteme" begins. With the aid of a multisensor-platform in the shape of an autonomous flight system, the detection and rescue of the victims shall take place faster and more efficiently in the future. This was imposingly presented at an airfield in Rotenburg (Wümme) in front of an interested and impressed public. Here, the roundabout 30 guests had the chance to see the flight system in action and were presented with the project's innovations by understandable demonstrative superstructures by the consortium and detailed explanations.
The major innovation of the automatized detection, the visual information about the local state as well as the telemedical support create enormous added value in daily rescue operations. As the coordinator of the project, the Communication Networks Institute (CNI) of TU Dortmund provides with Prof. Wietfeld the speaker of the consortium with six partners. LARUS is supported by the Federal Ministry for Education an Research (BMBF). Within the scope of the project, the CNI is responsible for the investigation of highly reliable communication between missing persons, the aircraft and a mobile control panel. Moreover, a radio-based solution for the localization of the victims is being conceptualized.
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