Fire-fighting Robot finds flame in fourth room it searches

Fire-fighting robot technical capability demo for my 1998 Masters thesis.

More info here: http://www.cooper.edu/~mar/firefite.htm

A mobile robot with 8 sonars, 12, infrared proximity sensors, odometric sensors, infrared photoransistor flame sensor, and a "fan" searches and extinguishes a fire in a mock house.

This demo is modeled after The Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest, an annual event where people from around the world compete by building a robot that can find and extinguish a fire in a model of a house. The goal of the robot is to score points while moving through the model, detect a lit candle, and then extinguish it. This simulates a real world application of a future autonomous fire-security robot operating in a factory, office, as well as home setting.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Fire
• Fighting
• Robot

[poopinitup]

I hope you respond to this after such a long time! What kind of degree and graduate degrees are good to do this kind of stuff?

[rasmasyean]

@poopinitup This type of stuff is a mixture of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. I think Carnegie Mellon has a "Robotics" degree program that prolly mixes these curiculums. Otherwise, you'd prolly have to pick one and pic some courses cross major.

[sckryde]

thats cool..

you know what would be cool?

some type of thermo sensors as well as air toxicity sensors.. it would allow the machine.. to define the most critical areas

[rasmasyean]

Those are good ideas. They do have a UV Tron sensor that can allow it to detect a flame in the room by just passing through the hall wihtout having to enter it and point in. I don't think they would use any toxic fumes in a consted like this, but I'm sure a future real fire-fighting robot will have one definately! ;)

[amando96]

why so many ir sensors and ping? all you need is like 4 at the max...

at the moment i'm using one! and it works fine... have to make some more though...

[rasmasyean]

It's just one of the demos of what the robot can do. If you look at the description, it's not built for "fire-fighting contests". If you are interested in details of the overall project and want to learn about the sensors, email me and I'll send you the paper (unless you want to search the libraries for it).

[Cowardlyman]

Lmao, it went to every other room first. . Hahahahahaha

[sintvaffel]

BAD thing. my house could have burnd down befor that thing even find it's way in.

[tahiman2]

@poopinitup i m sorry to intefere......but is mechatronics an appropriate course for robotics

[stevespielberg]

So this is from 1998? Impressive. What are you up to now? I find this incredibly fascinating.

[thejapz]

@rasmasyean it's called mechatronics :D

[depender1]

After extinguishing a fire in a room it will sing a congratulation song?!? O.o

[depender1]

lmaooooo this thing is gonna extinguish a huge fire in my room with THAT FAN?!?!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[j3k2006]

@poopinitup Mechatronics Engineering

[shadowice800]

@sintvaffel lol