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"Wildfires are destructive and inflict massive, irreversible harm to victims'\nlives and natural resources. Researchers have proposed commissioning unmanned\naerial vehicles (UAVs) to provide firefighters with real-time tracking\ninformation; yet, these UAVs are not able to reason about a fire's track,\nincluding current location, measurement, and uncertainty, as well as\npropagation. We propose a model-predictive, probabilistically safe distributed\ncontrol algorithm for human-robot collaboration in wildfire fighting. The\nproposed algorithm overcomes the limitations of prior work by explicitly\nestimating the latent fire propagation dynamics to enable intelligent,\ntime-extended coordination of the UAVs in support of on-the-ground human\nfirefighters. We derive a novel, analytical bound that enables UAVs to\ndistribute their resources and provides a probabilistic guarantee of the\nhumans' safety while preserving the UAVs' ability to cover an entire fire."
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