Natural disaster management with multi UAV systems

The occurrence of natural disasters is getting increase in recent years compared with the past, and these disasters cause millions of casualties every year. It is critical for humanity to minimize losses caused by disasters, which seriously affect social and economic balance, as well as casualties. There is a lot of studies in the literature regarding the management competencies of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in emergencies such as natural disasters. In the context of natural disaster management, this study defines the role of UAVs and presents disaster management with swarm of UAVs using existing methods and technologies in an exemplary earthquake scenario simulated in Gazebo environment. Here, UAVs not only search the disaster area, but also deliver the injured victims to the nearest hospitals and provide telecommunication services for healthy survivors. The aim of this study is to create a complete disaster management system by providing useful technical results to improve the welfare of people in emergencies such as natural disasters. In this context, the stages that need to be followed before and after the disaster are examined, alternative network architectures that can be used by UAVs are presented and all wireless communication technologies that can be provided for different needs are examined and compared.