Dian Guo, Tanner Muldoon, Kamran Sirohi, Alex McArthur
The purpose of the project is to program a robot that automatically detects a fire, drives to it, and sprays water on the fire to put it out. The robot uses a Raspberry Pi and mbed to control it and gather information from the camera. It can also be manually controlled using a Bluetooth controller like a phone, and will send an alert to the phone if there is a fire.
The robot has the following modes with different functionality:
- Patrol: The robot moves around a certain set area looking for fires
- Detection: The robot uses data from the camera to check for whether there is a fire in its area
- Path Creation: The data from the camera is used to plot best path to fire
- Suppression: The robot travels the best path, turns on the pump, and releases the water
The ideal robot would follow the following system:
- The robot is patrolling around a certain set area and looking for fires using a camera through a Raspberry Pi.
- When a fire is detected, the robot uses data from the camera to determine the direction the fire is in and the path to take towards it.
- When the robot has arrived at the fire, it will turn on the pump and shoot out all the water in the reservoir to put out the fire.
- When the fire has been put out, it will return to its designated patrol path.
Some difficulties involved with this system include:
- Ideal path planning is a difficult task because the robot should be able to adjust to different environments
- Propagating error due to insufficient motor control
- Compatibility issues when running the fire detection classifier on the Pi
- Best fire detection classifier implementation choice for different environments
Prototype:
Demo:
FirefighterBot Water Test https://youtu.be/GWK5LJAiSWc
FirefighterBot Real Fire Test https://youtu.be/jWqstQ8AiOc
FirefighterBot Demo and Instructions https://youtu.be/bm2bm8v9Nbk