High-Level Project Summary
The project represents a robot its target to put off the fire immediately when it starts by a thermal sensor in the rooms of the floor then the robot goes to the place of the fire using a four-wheel system moving on a T-shaped track then it determines the position of the fire in the room by a thermal sensor in the robot arm which moves and scans the entire room or place then is re-center the arm to the position of the fire and it starts pumping water on it then after it finishes it makes an additional scan on the place to make sure that fire has ended and all this occurs in a time 3 min. and 23 sec.
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Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
More Details:
The idea of the project is to make a robot that depends on automatically putting off the fire where it doesn’t need manual or human help in this process. The idea of the process is that there will be a water tank in the middle of every floor of the building, the predicted space for this tank will be 125 cm in length, 125 cm in width and the thickness will be about only 30 cm so it doesn’t occupy such a high area in the building.
Beside the water tank, there will be a stage that represents the central place of the robot, here the robot is recharged and it represents the starting and the ending point of the journey of the robot. The track of the robot will be a T-shaped horizontally fixed to the wall from its base and the body which holds the robot mass is in a parallel plan relative to the wall,extending from the stage to every room on the floor where there are different colored straps on the track of every room to indicate the robot in which room it is. This action will be done by acolor sensorwhich is fixed below in the robot to scan the track while the robot is moving, for example, if a fire occurred in room A, and room A is indicated by red color so the robot will complete its movement until it reaches the red color strap this means that the robot is present in room A, so the robot goes directly to the following step. The robot moves on the track by the effect of four DC gear motors connected to wheels which are fixed parallel to the wall of every room by this the robot can move from the stage to any room or move from one place to another. The robot motors are fixed in the interior part of the chassis of the robot which is previously designed. For the outer part of the robot, there will be a robot arm that consists of two servo motors the first is fixed between the robot body and its function is to rotate the arm on the X-axis plan, and the second servo motor will be fixed on the terminal of the X axis arm and its function will be to rotate the robot arm on the Y axis direction and by that the robot will ensure scanning of all the room. On the end terminal of the Y-axis arm, there will be a thermal IR camera sensor and its function will be to scan the room completely in order to indicate the place of the fire accurately After the IR thermal camera indicates the place of the fire it will re-center the robotic arm to be on the face of the fire directly. There will be also a water plastic pipe fixed on the terminal of the Y-axis arm which will be connected to the water pump in order to pump the water in the direction of the fire to put it off. This water pump will be connected from the other side to the water tank which is present in the center of each floor. There will be a fire or a smoke sensor in each room of the building, where the idea of this sensor is to find out if there is a fire in its room if there is a fire it will send a signal to the robot that there is a fire in its room so this will be as a sign for the robot to start its work and here the robot will leave its stage to this room according to the color straps on the trach which are mentioned previously. After the robot finds the fire and put it off it will make a second scan to ensure that the fire is put off completely, and in this case, it will return back to its stage and it will be recharged and it will still there until another mission.
Benefits:
Undoubtedly, one of the most important benefits of the project is its results, where the robot could put off the fire at a time 3 min. and 23 sec.
Tools:
(4) wheels, (4) DC gear motors, Arduino Uno, Motor driver module, (2) 9v lithium-ion batteries, (2) servo motors, IR(Infrared) camera sensor, Color sensor, jumpers, breadboard, Colors straps, chassis' robot, Water pump.
We hope to achieve this project on a large scale in our country and whole the world.
Space Agency Data
we learned a lot of things from the provided information open data where we read a lot of research papers that were connected to our idea where the idea of the motion of the robot was taken from another thing and by the way the method of focusing of the robot to the position of the fire in order to extinguish it was partly taken from a robot arm to insure high sensitivity.
Hackathon Journey
It was a great experience We learned how to fix problems and find solutions for more than one solution by researching, we learned also the programming of the Arduino and the whole system of the project on Arduino IDE by python language in addition to the3D designing where the project had to be designed in order to take in consideration all the possible issues that may face us, in addition to that we learned the video editing.
We decided to work on this challenge because it has a lot of negative effects and it leads to high economic and life losses.
We faced a lot of problems while working on this project where the robotic part of the project had a lot of challenges in order to work in a sufficient way.
I want to thank Eng. Sayed Rashwan for his efforts in helping us to reach our goal from the project
References
Alkahari, M. R., Ranjit, S. S. S., & Tan, C. F. (n.d.). Water pressure loss analysis of the mobile machine for Fire Fighting purposes. CORE. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://core.ac.uk/works/70951765
Kabir, K. S., Nabil, A., & Rafat, S. S. (n.d.). (PDF) fire fighting robot - researchgate. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350996142_Fire_Fighting_Robot
The robot moves near to object | download the scientific diagram. (n.d.). Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Robot-moves-near-to?object_fig2_348929351
Zhang, S., Yao, J., Wang, R., Liu, Z., Ma, C., Wang, Y., & Zhao, Y. (2022, April 21). Design of intelligent fire-fighting robot based on multi-sensor fusion and experimental study on fire scene patrol. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Retrieved July 21, 2022, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921889022000677?via%3Dihub
Tags
Fire, Fire Extinguisher, Put off fire, Arduino project, sensors, water pump, robot, fire robot, economic loss