SEARCH AND RESCUE: LAND

Scenario Description

Domain: Air, land

Situation: Several people are missing after a boat accident. They have been reported to be located somewhere at Gränsö and need to be located as fast as possible.

Area: A selected area of Gränsö (see image)

Mission: Conduct a search mission to locate the missing people

Objectives: Use available resources to locate the missing people

Measures/Scoring:

  • Time to find all missing people
  • Traveled distance (energy)

Resources:

  • UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles)
  • Drone Operators
  • Object Detector
  • UGV’s (unmanned ground vehicles)

Prerequisites:

  • Number of missing people are known beforehand
  • An area of interest is given beforehand

Challenges:

  • Resource allocation due to multiple teams competing or collaborating
  • Object detection
  • Collision avoidance
  • Additional information (e.g. areas of interest, changes in priority, drone battery change e.t.c.)

Roles:

  • Rescue Leader
  • Game leader

Expansion 1

People are hiding

Domain: Air, land

Situation: The missing people are hiding

Area: A selected area of Gränsö

Mission: Conduct a search mission to locate the missing people

Objectives: Use available resources to locate the missing people

Measures/Scoring:

  • Time to find all missing people
  • Traveled distance (energy)

Resources:

  • UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles)
  • Drone Operators
  • Object Detector
  • UGV’s (unmanned ground vehicles)

Prerequisites:

  • Number of missing people are known beforehand
  • An estimate of the affected area is given beforehand

Challenges:

  • Resource allocation due to multiple teams competing or collaborating
  • Object detection
  • Collision avoidance
  • Additional information (e.g. areas of interest, changes in priority, drone battery change e.t.c.)

Roles:

  • Rescue Leader
  • Game leader

Expansion 2

Finding missing people amongst others

Domain: Air, land

Situation: Not all people are relevant to the mission

Area: A selected area of Gränsö

Mission: Conduct a search mission to locate the missing people and ignore other people

Objectives: Use available resources to locate the missing people and ignore other people

Measures/Scoring:

  • Time to find all missing people
  • Correctly identifying the missing people
  • Traveled distance (energy)

Resources:

  • UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles)
  • Drone Operators
  • Object Detector
  • UGV’s (unmanned ground vehicles)

Prerequisites:

  • Number of missing people are known beforehand
  • An estimate of the affected area is given beforehand

Challenges:

  • Resource allocation due to multiple teams competing or collaborating
  • Object detection
  • Collision avoidance
  • Additional information (e.g. areas of interest, changes in priority, drone battery change e.t.c.)

Roles:

  • Rescue Leader
  • Game leader

Expansion 3

Deliver necessities to injured missing people

Domain: Air, land

Situation: Some of the missing people has sustained injuries and need medical supplies

Area: A selected area of Gränsö

Mission: Find injured people and deliver supplies

Objectives: Use available resources to locate the injured missing people and deliver supplies

Measures/Scoring:

  • Time to find injured people
  • Time to deliver supplies
  • Traveled distance (energy)

Resources:

  • UAV’s (unmanned aerial vehicles)
  • Drone Operators
  • Object Detector
  • UGV’s (unmanned ground vehicles)
  • Boston Dynamics SPOT

Prerequisites:

  • Number of missing people are known beforehand
  • An estimate of the affected area is given beforehand

Challenges:

  • Resource allocation due to multiple teams competing or collaborating
  • Object detection
  • Collision avoidance
  • Delivery of supplies
  • Additional information (e.g. areas of interest, changes in priority, drone battery change e.t.c.)

Roles:

  • Rescue Leader
  • Game leader