Firefighting Drone Configuration and Scheduling for Wildfire Based on Loss Estimation and Minimization
Author:
Wu Rong-Yu1, Xie Xi-Cheng1, Zheng Yu-Jun1ORCID
Affiliation:
1. School of Information Science and Technology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Abstract
Drones have been increasingly used in firefighting to improve the response speed and reduce the dangers to human firefighters. However, few studies simultaneously consider fire spread prediction, drone scheduling, and the configuration of supporting staff and supplies. This paper presents a mathematical model that estimates wildfire spread and economic losses simultaneously. The model can also help us to determine the minimum number of firefighting drones in preparation for wildfire in a given wild area. Next, given a limited number of firefighting drones, we propose a method for scheduling the drones in response to wildfire occurrence to minimize the expected loss using metaheuristic optimization. We demonstrate the performance advantages of water wave optimization over a set of other metaheuristic optimization algorithms on 72 test instances simulated on selected suburb areas of Hangzhou, China. Based on the optimization results, we can pre-define a comprehensive plan of scheduling firefighting drone and configuring support staff in response to a set of scenarios of wildfire occurrences, significantly improving the emergency response efficiency and reducing the potential losses.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Computer Science Applications,Aerospace Engineering,Information Systems,Control and Systems Engineering
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