Fire-fighting Robot finds flame in third 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

[wookieeassassin]

Everyone who bitches about it not being the most awesome thing ever needs to shut up. If everyone had talked about how lame computers were when they used to use punch cards you'd never have the greatly improved ones we have today.

[Luchux]

Did you try with backtracking?

[VFVFCo68]

damn robot! It's gonna replace me! D:

[nymphetamine001]

woooow

[sirpau1]

Very nice :) Check out my robot on my channel. It's based on the same contest :) And works almost every time (find and extinguishes candle in any of the 4 rooms, in any corner of the room).

[diablotor12]

i prefer a real fire-fighter to save me..not robots!!!

[kanika2413]

v good

[DonApollyon]

All you need to do is interface the robot's direction finding sensors and its inbuilt map (if it doesn't have one, give it one) of the area with the alarm panel's addressable detector addresses and it will go right to the location and put out the fire. A robot with the site's map in its memory will act quickly and be a useful (though not as quick) alternative to a full sprinkler system. Add a dry powder fire grenade launcher and you have a mean fire-fighting robot, a good first effort!

[youngestpilotinGa]

are we realy to lazy to blow out a candle ourselves

[redrainjedi]

"Act now and purchase your very own autonomous roving candle snuffer!! All for the low low price of $4,000!!"

[chingtham2330]

It's just the beginning it takes time to improve as we are born we don't straight jump start and go to school or work and start earning. Over all I think its a very good effort.