Review Article
A Comprehensive Review on Design of Autonomous Robotic
Boat for Rescue Applications
Vanita Jain ,
1
Dharmender Saini ,
2
Monu Gupta,
1
Neeraj Joshi,
1
Anubhav Mishra,
1
Vishakha Bansal,
1
and D. Jude Hemanth
3
1
Department of IT, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi, India
2
Department of CSE, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi, India
3
Department of ECE, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, India
Correspondence should be addressed to D. Jude Hemanth; judehemanth@karunya.edu
Received 15 December 2020; Revised 31 May 2021; Accepted 8 June 2021; Published 22 June 2021
Academic Editor:
Ricardo Aguilar-Lopez
Copyright © 2021 Vanita Jain et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
New technologies are advancing and emerging day by day to improve the safety of humans by making use of various autonomous
technologies. e continuous utilization of autonomous vehicles/systems in search and rescue (SAR) operations is a challenging
research area particularly for marine-based activities. A comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) providing an overview
of improvisations that have been done in the field of autonomous technologies for search and rescue operation over the last five
years has been compiled in this paper. A methodology for using autonomous vehicles in water for SAR operations has been
incorporated and demonstrated. e focus of this study is to look at the various techniques and address different challenges faced
for human beings’ safety during rescue operation. e comparison of results achieved for various technologies and algorithms is
highlighted in this paper. is literature survey proves to be a good source of information for fellow researchers to precisely
analyze the study results.
1. Introduction
e response to any mishaps should be made in such a way
that the victims are reached as soon as possible along with
taking care to avoid additional collapse and damage. e
challenging part is that the victims and the rescuers should
both be safe; the foremost and primary goal is to save lives. In
this world of emerging technologies and automation, robots
can prove to be a useful asset to meet this goal either by
interacting directly or indirectly with victims or by sup-
porting protection equipment. e main task of the rescue
team is to search for the human survivors on the incident
site, and it is a hazardous task that often leads to the loss of
lives. However, the introduction of autonomous robotic
rescue [1, 2] devices can prove valuable for humans and save
their lives. erefore, in this paper, the focus will be on
studying and reviewing various unmanned SAR technolo-
gies, mainly for water bodies for detecting, locating, and
rescuing humans. Many research works are going on for
developing SAR technologies.
For centuries, the biggest fear of people was the possi-
bility of falling into water bodies. Presently, several different
technologies solve this problem. Although there is plenty of
protection equipment like trailing lines, man overboard
detection transmitters, chase boats, rescue buoys, and life
rings to provide safety, a significant drawback of these
devices is that they work only in some specific situations.
Due to human limitations or rescue equipment drawbacks, a
new device or product is needed to save the lives of people
who work in the accident-prone marine area. Due to large
ships’ movement and their ongoing trade, supervising and
protecting staff on board are difficult.
In this paper, the newest advancements and techniques
in the field of autonomous technologies for search and
rescue operation that have proved fruitful are reviewed and
incorporated. e work in this paper would help other fellow
researchers to find more innovative and precise method-
ologies to achieve desirable results.
is paper is organized as follows. Section 2 comprises
various methodologies that have been used to do the
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2021, Article ID 6614002, 17 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6614002
