Automatic fire fighting robot with notification

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2019-10, Vol.637 (1), p.12002
• Main Authors: Jalani, J, Misman, D, Sadun, A S, Hong, L C
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accidents; Fire damage; Fire fighting; Obstacle avoidance; Respiration; Robots; Sensors; Stability; Water tanks
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/637/1/012002

In real life, fire accidents can happen anytime and anywhere that usually hardly controllable. Fire accidents can damage the buildings, kill human and may cause unpredictable losses. In addition, death not only due to the fire but also from smoke inhalation and toxic gases. Therefore the fire security is important to human life. Note that the human is difficult to detect the fire in the location that is hard to reach or see by a human. Moreover, the human also may take a lot of time to extinguish fire due to the fact that finding a water source can be troublesome. Therefore, an automatic firefighting robot has been designed and proposed in this study. This robot used 3 flame sensors to detect the fire. It also equipped with 3 ultrasonic sensors for obstacle avoiding which protecting the robot and the internal components from any obstacles. Each sensor on the robot is controlled by the Arduino. Apart from the sensors, the robot is also equipped with the water tank that provides water once the fire is detected. The robot will move randomly in the room when the power is on. When the flame sensors detected the fire, the robot will move to the fire source and send a warning message to the user. Once the robot reached the burning area, it will stop at a certain distance and extinguish the fire by using water.