Autonomous UAS for Wildfire Monitoring

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Facts: Forests cover 30% world’s land area, wildfire has significant impact on us. 3 million ha burnt per year in Canada. Wildfire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling (M3) is to identify and locate actively burning fires, to estimate fire areas, and to model fire behaviour.

In this research project, we propose to use autonomous UAS (and a fleet of UAS in formation flight) to detect fire hotspots, and to track fire propagation.

Fire Hotspot Detection (Burwash 2013)

Estimate wildfire contour and rate of spread by deploying multiple UAS in coordinated flight.

Participants:

  • Dr. Zhongjie Lin
  • Mr. Dennis Bohdanov
  • Ms. Connie Phan

Sponsored by and In Collaboration with

Related Publications:

2018

Lin, Zhongjie; Liu, Hugh H T

Topology-Based Distributed Optimization for Multi-UAV Cooperative Wildfire Monitoring Journal Article

In: OPTIMAL CONTROL APPLICATIONS AND METHODS, 2018.

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Lin, Zhongjie; Liu, Hugh H T; Wotton, Mike

Kalman filter-based large-scale wildfire monitoring with a system of UAVs Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2018, ISSN: 02780046.

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2017

Lin, Zhongjie; Liu, Hugh H T

Autonomous Wildfire Hotspot Detection Using a Fixed Wing UAV Journal Article

In: International Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Systems Engineering, pp. 1–17, 2017.

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2016

Lin, Zhongjie; Bohdanov, Denys; Liu, Hugh H T

Wildfire Autonomous Hotspot Detection Using a Fixed Wing UAV Journal Article

In: Unmanned Systems, 2016, (Submitted on October 1, 2016).

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Lin, Zhongjie; Liu, Hugh H T

Kalman filter-based large-scale wildfire monitoring with a system of UAVs Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2016, (Revision submitted on August 18, 2016, under review).

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2015

Lin, Zhongjie; Liu, Hugh H T

Enhanced Cooperative Filter for Wildfire Monitoring Enhanced Cooperative Filter for Wildfire Monitoring Inproceedings

In: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan, 2015.

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2014

Lin, Zhongjie; Liu, Hugh H T

Consensus Based on Learning Game Theory Inproceedings

In: IEEE Chinese Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Yantai, China, 2014.

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2013

Phan, Connie; Liu, Hugh H T

A Fourier Series Kalman Filtering Framework for Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Temperature Inproceedings

In: AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., Boston, MA, 2013.

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2012

Bohdanov, Denys

Quadrotor UAV Control for Vision-based Moving Target Tracking Task Masters Thesis

University of Toronto, 2012, (urlDenysBohdanov_MASc_2012.pdf).

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2010

Phan, Connie; Liu, Hugh H T

Dynamic Mapping of Forest Fire Fronts Using Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Inproceedings

In: Wildland Fire Canada Conference, Waterloo, ON, 2010.

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Phan, Connie; Liu, Hugh H T

Online Mapping of Forest Fire Fronts Using Multiple Online Mapping of Forest Fire Fronts Using Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Inproceedings

In: AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conf., 2010.

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2008

Phan, Connie; underline Hugh H.T. Liu,

A Cooperative UAV/UGV Platform for Wildfire Detection and Fighting Inproceedings

In: 7th International Conference on System Simulation and Scientific Computing, Beijing, CHINA, 2008.

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Phan, Connie; Liu, Hugh H T

Mapping of Dynamic Isotherms in Wildfires Using Temperature Measurements from Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Formation Flight Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 0000.

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