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University of Bristol students extend SAREnv at EuroDroS

University of Bristol students at the EuroDroS conference

It was great to host three University of Bristol Aerospace undergraduatesRoss Dewar, Ethan Dueck, and George Whinnett — at the EuroDroS conference at the University of Southern Denmark. Each student's third-year research project focused on extending and deploying SAREnv, the search-and-rescue simulation environment originally developed by our two institutions.

Their projects pushed SAREnv in a variety of new directions, and presenting at EuroDroS gave them a chance to share that work with the wider drone-safety community. Thanks to Bristol's student travel fund for supporting their attendance!

SAREnv is the shared wilderness-SAR dataset and benchmark we released with the University of Bristol — read more in our SAREnv post or grab the code on GitHub.

Original SAREnv work
Grøntved, Jarabo-Peñas, Reid, Rolland, Watson, Richards, Bullock, Christensen · Drones 9(9):628

GitHub · Demo video · Original announcement on LinkedIn

SAREnv was developed with support from the Innovation Fund Denmark (DIREC, 9142-00001B), the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant 10.46540/4264-00105B, NAMUR project), and the WildDrone MSCA Doctoral Network (EU Horizon Europe, grant 101071224).