ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS USING A NETWORK-CENTRIC CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A GROUP OF UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

Abstract

The number of natural and man-made emergencies on the territory of the Russian Federation continues to remain at a fairly high level. All emergencies are accompanied by the impact on the environment of dangerous damaging factors that can lead to harm to human health and life, fires and explosions with partial or complete destruction of various objects, pollution of the terrain and atmosphere by emissions of harmful substances. All this requires the implementation of emergency measures for the organization and conduct of search and rescue and other urgent work to find and protect people in dangerous areas and lesions. The purpose of the work is to substantiate and develop new tools and methods to improve the efficiency and quality of the organization and conduct of search and rescue operations in areas of large-scale emergencies by units of EMERCOM of Russia. The methodological basis of the work consists of analysis, synthesis, statistical, system-structural methods, and forecasting method. Approaches to improving the efficiency and quality of organizing and conducting search and rescue operations in large-scale emergency zones based on the use of a distributed network-centric control system for a group of unmanned aircraft, which allows all devices of the group to promptly exchange information messages both among themselves and with the central control node.