Towards a heat-resistant tethered micro-aerial vehicle for structure fire sensing

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2025-02-23

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MDPI
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa

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  • Gobierno de Navarra//0011-1411-2024-000038/
  • Gobierno de Navarra//0011-1365-2023-000087/
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Abstract

The collapse of structures during firefighter intervention is one of the greatest risks that firefighters must face when entering buildings. To reduce these risks, situational awareness is key. Although many advances have already been developed in wildland and outdoor fires, there is still room for improvement in structure fires. The development of a heat-resistant micro-aerial vehicle for indoor fires poses a series of challenges such as component cooling, battery management, and protection from impacts. In this paper, a heat-resistant tethered micro-aerial vehicle is designed, modeled through thermal analysis, and successfully tested in real-world conditions. This platform has been equipped with a micro-sized thermal sensing camera and first-person-view (FPV) camera, optimized for thermal management, to allow for situational awareness in structure fires.

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Keywords

Heat-resistant UAV, Structural fire, Tethered drone, Thermal sensing, Situational awareness

Department

Estadística, Informática y Matemáticas / Estatistika, Informatika eta Matematika / Institute of Smart Cities - ISC

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Aláez, D., Prieto, M., Villadangos, J., Astrain, J. J. (2025) Towards a heat-resistant tethered micro-aerial vehicle for structure fire sensing. Applied Sciences, 15(5), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3390/app15052388.

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