Development of Autonomous Fire Fighting Robot

Abstract

Fires have been one of the most common and catastrophic calamities in recent years, causing immense damages to national property and individuals. Firefighters extinguish the fire to protect the lives of people and to avoid loss of property but firefighters are susceptible to burns, smoke, inhalation, and crush injuries from collapsing structures. Due to continuous contact with fire, firefighters suffer from long-term ailments such as asthma, dreadful diseases, etc. Recently, firefighting robots have been developed to eradicate the problems that occurred due to fire and provide safety to firefighters. In this paper, a firefighting robot is proposed which detects and extinguishes fire without any human assistance. The proposed robot is designed to be able to work on its own or be controlled remotely. Using such robots, fire detection and rescue operations can be carried out with greater security and without putting firefighters in risky situations. The proposed firefighting robots have been developed for both autonomous and manual modes. This robot is worked in manual mode by making use of the HC-05 Bluetooth module. This mode allows the user to navigate the robot via a mobile application on an android device. The fire-fighting robot has been successfully tested in a simulation software like Proteus
and the above results are validated with the help of an experimental prototype.