I am looking for narrowing down the topic for my master theses. Real industrial problems to be solved with innovative technologies are the most interesting topics.
There are several perspectives on that topic. From a high level perspective, you can focus on either the detection of wildfire or fire extinguish objective. Particularly, you can have a look at Challenge 3 in this video which presents the objectives in the upcoming MBZIRC competition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u106Vy-XJ7c
Also, this paper is a good practical example:
Article A cooperative perception system for multiple UAVs: Applicati...
Stefanie Quast Based on my 4 years experience of working in pool fires and building years, I can say mobile robots will be future for fire fighting. They can be constructed of fire resistant materials so that they can go much closer to fire source and spraying the fire extinguishers in a much effective way. Another important advantage they have is speed and they can use detect IR waves via sensors to carry out fire fighting operations in low visibility areas due to dense smoke. More research can be done in these directions.