Collaborative Human–UAV Search and Rescue for Missing Tourists in Nature Reserves
Yu‐Jun Zheng, Yi-Chen Du, Weiguo Sheng, Hai-Feng Ling · INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics · 2019
The authors present a highly complex search-planning problem in which unmanned aerial vehicles and humans collaborate to minimize the expected time at which human rescuers reach a target who is missing. They propose an evolutionary algorithm that uses biogeography-inspired operators to find an optimal or near-optimal solution within an acceptable time.