Fig. 5: Detection of localized targets in dense forest and swarm deployment.
From: An autonomous drone swarm for detecting and tracking anomalies among dense vegetation
To find lying (a–c) and standing (d–f) persons in a dense forest under low light conditions, the swarm was deployed to search areas in which the targets were expected to be, and then it explored these areas autonomously. b, e The view (RGB) from the deployment drone, with swarm drones encircled. a, d The views of the swarm drones (D1…D6, target positions indicated by boxes). c, f Thermal and anomaly integrals also reveal the person anomalies, which remain hidden in the single images. Note that thermal images are color-coded (hot = red, cool = gray). This experiment was recorded in Supplementary Movie 3(Experiment II).
