Emergency Response Technologies

The KIOS CoE develops state of the art tools and methodologies for emergency response management, monitoring and inspection of critical infrastructures through the utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs), sensors and robotics technologies.
These technologies are used for the development of intelligent functionalities including automated path-planning, real-time image analysis, object detection and coordination architectures for multi-drone systems that ensure scalable and robust operations.
The key benefits of such systems include, the enhancement of public safety, improvement of CIS efficiency, safety of operations and hazards avoidance, reduction of person-hours and costs.
Capabilities

Emergency Response
Delivery of advanced educational and training activities on drone theory and technologies for emergency response
Development of Standard Operating Procedures for drone deployment
Delivery of training on the usage of state-of-the-art software and hardware developed at KIOS

Automated Perception

Autonomous UAV Systems
Development of frameworks (centralized/distributed) for multi-drone tasking in emergency response missions

Sensing and Optical Metrology
Night-time detection using infrared thermal camera
Utilization of software defined radio technology for emergency communications and extended wireless coverage using UAVs

Image Processing and Mapping
Development of static and dynamic algorithms for terrain classification
Utilization of automated feature extraction methodologies
Use Cases
Infrastructure Inspection
Safety & Security
Traffic Management
CONTACT US

Dr. Panayiotis Kolios
Research Assistant Professor
For collaborations or request for the use of the emergency response technologies please send us an email.