The research allows rescuers to feed information to drones, which can then independently help teams scout locations or find individuals.
Zachary Sunberg, left, an Assistant Professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Hunter Ray a CU Boulder doctoral candidate and a volunteer rescuer with the Boulder Emergency Squad, examine AI-enabled drones that could be used in search and rescue missions. The University of Colorado Boulder’s Ann and H.J.
“When it comes to using drones, we’ve been using them on the team since 2016 so we’re very familiar with how to implement them in operations but when we have one drone in the field we often have two or three people to manage the aircraft; piloting it, keeping it charged, and coordinating its operation with the rest of the incident and getting that information right back to whoever needs it.”
“It’s kind of delegating responsibility to the aircraft on its own and then the user can charge batteries, collaborate on radio, kind of deal with higher level steps,” said Ray. Ray clarified that there’s always going to be a person at the center of the system and that the intention of the project is not to replace the user.
“When you say ‘we save lives’ it always sounds dramatic. But in our case, saving a life is searching for someone and finding them before they’re at a point where they are not going to make it, right?” said Amalfitano. “So we might not actually save their life that moment, but we are reducing the harm by finding them sooner. “
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