17
Jul,
2026
Researchers from FUNIBER and UNEATLANTICO are participating in a study on autonomous drones to improve rescue operations in tunnel accidents
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Dr. Roberto Marcelo Alvarez, executive director of the Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER) for Argentina and Uruguay, and Dr. Yini Airet Miró, a research professor at the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (Universidad Europea del Atlántico, UNEATLANTICO), an institution that is part of the Foundation’s International University Network, are participating in a new study alongside an international team of researchers. The research proposes an emergency response system based on autonomous drones and multi-agent reinforcement learning to expedite the search for victims in tunnel accidents. Read more