BLUE MIST Fire Fighting Robot Extinguishes Flame!

This is a video of a robot, BLUE MIST, I have built for my senior project at Greenhills High School and am entering in the 2008 Trinity Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest. This robot is completely autonomous, meaning it functions independent of any human control.

Here's a basic overview of how it works:

The robot navigates from room to room, using multiple infrared distance sensors to follow the walls. A line sensor facing the floor notifies the robot when the vehicle enters a doorway, crossing a white line. To determine the position of the flame, the robot utilizes an ultraviolet light sensor, which allows the robot to single out a candle in both the brightest and darkest of conditions; it is unaffected by visible light. Once the robot gets right up to the flame, it depresses the nozzle of a pre-pressurized aerosol spray bottle filled with water, and the flame is history.

Info about BLUE MIST and the Trinity contest can be found at my website:

http://www.freewebs.com/jasonmquint/bluemist.htm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Robot
• Robotics
• Fire
• Fighting
• Trinity
• Flame
• Candle

[MrRasive]

how many lightsenrors are used?

[Kuranes83]

Very cool, great job!

[StopMotionMind]

That is soooo awesome!!