Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) is a time critical task. Rescue teams have to explore a large terrain within a short amount of time in order to locate survivors after a disaster. O...
—This paper presents an ad-hoc vehicular protocol to support the logistics of first responders. First responders often travel several kilometers to reach an area impacted by an ...
Jonathan Woodbridge, Mars Lan, Giovanni Pau, Mario...
The MAV '08 competition focused on the problem of using air and ground vehicles to locate and rescue hostages being held in a remote building. To execute this mission, a numbe...
Ruijie He, Abraham Bachrach, Michael Achtelik, Alb...
Knowing the orientation of a talker in the focal area of a large-aperture microphone array enables the development of better beamforming algorithms (to obtain higher-quality speech...
Abstract--Broadband source localization has several applications ranging from automatic video camera steering to target signal tracking and enhancement through beamforming. Consequ...