crossrefDrones2026-01-23
From Human Teams to Autonomous Swarms: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Benchmarking Framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Search and Rescue Missions
Julian Bialas, Mohammad Reza Mohebbi, Michiel J. van Veelen, Abraham Mejia-Aguilar, Robert Kathrein, Mario Döller
The adoption of novel technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Search and Rescue (SAR) operations remains limited. As a result, their full potential is not yet realized. Although UAVs have been deployed on an ad hoc basis, typically under manual control by dedicate…