A Novel Firefighting approach using Automated High Resistance Robot

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Fire incident is one of the dangerous disasters which results in property damage, loss of life and even causes permanent disability to the affected victims. Firefighters are primarily aims to handle the fire incidents, saving the people lives and properties. They even control the fires in woods and saves animals lives while being exposed to higher risks, especially in hazardous environments such as in nuclear power plants, petroleum refineries and gas tanks. They also faces other difficulties, particularly if fire occurs in a narrow and restricted areas, as it is necessary to explore the ruins of buildings and obstacles to extinguish the fire and save the victim. There is a need for technological innovations which could help firefighting with an automated means. Therefore, this project presents the development of a novel Firefighting Robot(FRob) that can detect and extinguish fire without the need of firefighters to be exposed to unnecessary dangers. FRob is designed to be compact in size compared to other conventional firefighting robots in order to ease small location entry for deeper reach of extinguishing fire in narrow space. It is also equipped with an Ultrasonic Sensor which is used for object detection and is used for measuring the distance between obstacle and robot and avoids the robot hitting obstacles. It is capable of identifying the fire location automatically and extinguish the fire. A human operator can monitor the robot performing fire extinguishing operations using the camera mounted on it which is being connected to a smartphone or remote devices.

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