Designing a fault-tolerant swarm of drones for flash flood risk assessment

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Computer science » Systems design; Computer science » Informatics; Computer science » Modelling tools; Environmental science » Water science; Engineering » Aerospace engineering. Researcher profile: First Stage Researcher (R1). Position type: PhD Positions. EU funding: Horizon Europe – COFUND Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number 101261439. Research fields: Distributed Systems, Autonomous Systems, Environmental Monitoring Impacts Keywords: Fault Tolerance, Distributed Algorithms, distributed Systems, Wireless Networks, Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems, Drones, UAV Swarm, Environmental Monitoring and Modelling, Flash Flood Motivation As flash floods have become a recurring disaster[1], causing loss of life, damage to agriculture and infrastructure, and disruption to communities all over the world, more detailed modelling and monitoring of rainfall and riverine floods is key to accurately assessing the risk of increasingly frequent water-related natural hazards. Our doctoral project brings together hydrologists and computer science experts to explore modelling techniques[2,3] and novel UAV-based remote sensing methods[4,5]. The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of the phenomenon and its impacts, and to enhance the spatial and temporal resolution, particularly for localised events in densely populated areas. Context, state-of-the-art research and scientific goals In the face of rapid climate change, the water cycle is set to be one of the most affected of

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