Towards a Social-media Driven Multi-Drone Tasking platform

We present a framework for utilising social-media for tasking drone swarms in search and rescue missions. As elaborated in this work, social-media are a source of timely and valuable information regarding the occurrence, the evolution and the damage produced in disasters. Exploiting this source of knowledge can be very valuable in planning search and rescue missions and identifying tasks to be conducted. In this work a novel multi-drone search and rescue framework is developed that considers social-media signals in the creation of search tasks. The key design challenges of implementing the proposed framework are discussed and a simulated scenario based on a real-life Twitter data set is presented as a means of providing evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed framework.