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LARUS

For ships in distress at sea every minute counts. However, rescuers often receive imprecise emergency calls that do not contain all information required for an efficient deployment. This challenge applies in particular to rescue missions for persons in the water or small vehicles that do not carry locating devices. The LARUS project aims to develop an automated system that supports search and rescue of persons in distress at sea.

Project duration: 15.10.2016 - 14.10.2019

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In the LARUS project, we aim to provide fast mission support through deployment of an unmanned aerial system (UAS). These systems can be used

  • to decrease on-scene arrival time,
  • to localize persons in distress and objects in the water,
  • to identify and observe the situtation,
  • and to provide communication resources (mobile relay).

The project develops the basis for an unmanned, automated search and localization system, that is fully integrated into civil airspace, to be deployed by the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service. Its various sensors and communication interfaces enable the UAS to be used in additional scenarios like offshore industry and disaster management.

LARUS is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under grant number 13N14133.

Further information:

News

Publications

05/01/2020

Reliable Long-Range Multi-Link Communication for Unmanned Search and Rescue Aircraft Systems in Beyond Visual Line of Sight Operation

J. Güldenring, P. Gorczak, F. Eckermann, M. Patchou, J. Tiemann, F. Kurtz, C. Wietfeld In Drones, MDPI, vol. 4, no. 2, May 2020
12/06/2019

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Logistics: Efficiency Gains and Communication Performance of Hybrid Combinations of Ground and Aerial Vehicles

M. Patchou, B. Sliwa, C. Wietfeld In IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2019, Los Angeles, USA, December 2019.
10/23/2019

Heterogeneous Multilink Aggregation for Reliable UAV Communication in Maritime Search and Rescue Missions

J. Güldenring, L. Koring, P. Gorczak, C. Wietfeld In 15th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and…
10/02/2019

Experimental 5G mmWave Beam Tracking Testbed for Evaluation of Vehicular Communications

K. Heimann, J. Tiemann, D. Yolchyan, C. Wietfeld In IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF) (WF-5G'19), September 2019.
09/04/2019

Robust Cellular Communications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Maritime Search and Rescue

P. Gorczak, C. Bektas, F. Kurtz, T. Lübcke, C. Wietfeld In IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), IEEE
04/11/2019

Software-Defined End-to-End Evaluation Platform for Quality of Service in Non-Standalone 5G Systems

K. Heimann, P. Gorczak, C. Bektas, F. Girke, C. Wietfeld In 2019 Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), Orlando, Florida, USA
12/13/2018

Supporting Maritime Search and Rescue Missions through UAS-based Wireless Localization

J. Tiemann, O. Feldmeier, C. Wietfeld In IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshops (GLOBECOM Workshops), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2018
06/06/2018

tinyLTE: Lightweight, Ad Hoc Deployable Cellular Network for Vehicular Communication

F. Eckermann, P. Gorczak, C. Wietfeld, In IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), June 2018.
03/16/2018

On the Potential of 5G mmWave Pencil Beam Antennas for UAV Communications: An Experimental Evaluation

K. Heimann, J. Tiemann, S. Böcker, C. Wietfeld, In 22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, VDE Verlag GMBH Berlin und Offenbach, Mach…
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