What is it about?
This paper examines the potential for autonomous vertical lift aerial vehicles to support disaster relief and emergency response (DRER) missions. In particular, a dual-use mission examination is made between small autonomous aerial vehicles supporting DRER missions and so-called "deliver drone" missions. It is an examination of how to leverage emerging commercial vertical lift aerial vehicles and associated network systems to also support dual-use missions for disaster relief and emergency response.
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Why is it important?
An economy of scale argument would suggest that disaster relief and emergency response could be greatly enhanced by leveraging emerging commercial vertical lift autonomous aerial vehicles.
Perspectives
Humanitarian, emergency response, and disaster relief have been hallmarks for helicopters and rotary-wing aircraft from their beginnings. The emergence of small autonomous vertical lift aerial vehicles represents an opportunity to continue this long tradition of rotary-vehicles to future new heights.
Larry A Young
NASA Ames Research Center
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This page is a summary of: Smart Precise Rotorcraft InTerconnected Emergency Services (SPRITES), January 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-2010.
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