Title
SEMFIRE: Towards a new generation of forestry maintenance multi-robot systems
Abstract
Europe has been affected by an alarming number of wildfires every year, ravaging nearly half a million hectares of forestry areas and resulting in an unacceptable amount of human losses. The year 2017 was one of the worst ever recorded, with devastating wildfires raging across the globe. Bearing these shocking facts in mind, this position paper aims to lay the foundations of crucial new upcoming research in the field of forestry robotics by presenting an overview of the SEMFIRE project. SEMFIRE proposes the development of a robotic system designed to reduce the accumulation of combustible material in forests, thus assisting in landscaping maintenance tasks for wildfire prevention. This paper describes the multi-robot system envisaged by SEMFIRE, combined with pervasive local positioning, multi-robot navigation and coordination in forests, and an innovative artificial perception architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/SII.2019.8700403
2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Forestry,Fires,Robot kinematics,Maintenance engineering,Fuels,Vegetation mapping
Robotic systems,Globe,Architecture,Landscaping,Position paper,Robot kinematics,Forestry,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Maintenance engineering,Robotics
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-2317
978-1-5386-3615-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Micael S. Couceiro133728.66
David Portugal217518.74
João F. Ferreira300.34
Rui P. Rocha440735.91