Research on a novel maritime emergency search system. (November 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Mingzhang; Zhangchen, Xinfei; Xiong, Xiaoshuang; Liu, Xunchen; Zhang, Xuancheng; Wang, Zeming; Han, Gailin
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Volume 236:Number 4(2022)
• Page Start: 971
• Page End: 983
• Publication Date: 2022-11
• Subjects: Ocean -- emergency -- search and rescue -- unmanned aerial vehicle -- monitoring; Marine engineering -- Periodicals; 623.805
• DOI: 10.1177/14750902221086706
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1475-0902

Abstract

With the continuous development of the marine economy and the inland river transport, traditional vessels supervision methods have the shortcomings of short supervision range, small supervision scope, and high cost, which make it difficult to meet the requirements of modern maritime supervision. This paper proposes a novel maritime emergency search system based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its landing platform. The system takes the base station with the cruise UAV, as the base point. Subsequently, TDMA system networking technology and wireless bridge communication technology are used to set up a local area network. Then, the improved three-dimensional raster processing is used to search the target waters. After that, several algorithms such as area optimization based on image filtering are applied to classify, integrate, and fit the waters. In addition, the base station distribution scheme and the emergency equipment intelligent management system software are designed to achieve more efficient and convenient management of the system. The system realizes unmanned, visualized, and normalized monitoring and management of the target waters through the coupling of UAV, aerial protection base stations and control terminals, and provides more detailed and accurate information for the development of search and rescue work.