Presentation 2019-07-12
UAV Aided Search and Rescue using Delay Tolerant Networks
Tetsushi Matsumi, Alberto Gallegos Ramonet, Taku Noguchi,
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Abstract(in English) The number of hiking incidents in Japan during the year 2017 sum up to 2583. These statistics are the worst registered until this point. However, to our knowledge, there is are no standard systems in place to combat this problem. In this document, we described the construction of a system that uses a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) with Unmannered Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a sensor network to assist in the rescue when hiking incidents occur. The proposed system is used as a search system for people in distress during a hiking incident. The system uses GPS information obtained from the hiker's smartphone and position information taken from fixed nodes pre-distributed across the entire mountain. The system constructs a DTN by using UAV and a sensor network, and can estimate present refugee location of a hiker based on both hiker's smartphone GPS information and fixed nodes' location information. The system main feature is the capability to work under poor communication environments because of its use of DTN. We use the DTN simulator "The ONE" to conduct a comparative experiment from previous research and verify the position difference between hikers and the system calculated positions. Our experiment results show that the performance of the proposed system is superior when compared to existing researches. The proposed system showed improvements in terms of search performance.
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Keyword(in English) DTN / UAV / Search and Rescue
Paper # RCC2019-48,NS2019-84,RCS2019-141,SR2019-60,SeMI2019-57
Date of Issue 2019-07-03 (RCC, NS, RCS, SR, SeMI)

Conference Information
Committee SeMI / RCS / NS / SR / RCC
Conference Date 2019/7/10(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) I-Site Nanba(Osaka)
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Topics (in English) Communication and Networked Control for the Future Radio of the AI Age, etc
Chair Susumu Ishihara(Shizuoka Univ.) / Tomoaki Otsuki(Keio Univ.) / Yoshikatsu Okazaki(NTT) / Masayuki Ariyoshi(NEC) / Kazunori Hayashi(Osaka City Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuya Monden(Hitachi) / Koji Yamamoto(Kyoto Univ.) / Satoshi Suyama(NTT DoCoMo) / Fumiaki Maehara(Waseda Univ.) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Akihiro Nakao(Univ. of Tokyo) / Suguru Kameda(Tohoku Univ.) / Osamu Takyu(Shinshu Univ.) / Kentaro Ishidu(NICT) / Shunichi Azuma(Nagoya Univ.) / HUAN-BANG LI(NICT)
Secretary Kazuya Monden(Kyoto Univ.) / Koji Yamamoto(NTT DOCOMO) / Satoshi Suyama(Hitachi) / Fumiaki Maehara(NTT) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Kyushu Univ.) / Akihiro Nakao(Osaka Pref Univ.) / Suguru Kameda(NTT) / Osamu Takyu(ATR) / Kentaro Ishidu(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Shunichi Azuma(Mie Univ.) / HUAN-BANG LI(Kagawa Univ.)
Assistant Akira Uchiyama(Osaka Univ.) / Kenji Kanai(Waseda Univ.) / Masafumi Hashimoto(Osaka Univ.) / Kazushi Muraoka(NTT DOCOMO) / Shinsuke Ibi(Doshisha Univ.) / Koichi Adachi(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Osamu Nakamura(Sharp) / Shinya Kumagai(Fujitsu) / Shinya Kawano(NTT) / Mai Ohta(Fukuoka Univ.) / Teppei Oyama(Fujitsu) / Kentaro Kobayashi(Nagoya Univ.) / Toshinori Kagawa(NICT) / Masateru Ogura(NAIST)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence / Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems / Technical Committee on Network Systems / Technical Committee on Smart Radio / Technical Committee on Reliable Communication and Control
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) UAV Aided Search and Rescue using Delay Tolerant Networks
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) DTN
Keyword(2) UAV
Keyword(3) Search and Rescue
1st Author's Name Tetsushi Matsumi
1st Author's Affiliation Ritsumeikan University(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Alberto Gallegos Ramonet
2nd Author's Affiliation Ritsumeikan University(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Taku Noguchi
3rd Author's Affiliation Ritsumeikan University(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Date 2019-07-12
Paper # RCC2019-48,NS2019-84,RCS2019-141,SR2019-60,SeMI2019-57
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) RCC-106,NS-107,RCS-108,SR-109,SeMI-110
Page pp.pp.171-176(RCC), pp.197-202(NS), pp.193-198(RCS), pp.203-208(SR), pp.185-190(SeMI),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-07-03 (RCC, NS, RCS, SR, SeMI)