Firefighting Robots Incorporated Using Swarm Technology
- May 24, 2019
- Posted by: RSIS
- Categories: Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering
International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue V, May 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705
Firefighting Robots Incorporated Using Swarm Technology
Raghavendra Havaldar1, Prathiksha Rai2
1,2Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic and Communication, AJ Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mangaluru 575006, Karnataka, India
Abstract—Swarm robotics is a type of collective behavior in which many individual independently functioning robots work collectively to complete the task in hand in a more efficient manner. Each individual robot has a mind of its own and is autonomously working. Firefighting robots incorporating this technology have been suggested in this paper. As a prototype, a main robot and a second robot referred to as slave is used. The master robot is used to control the movement of the slave robot. Both the master and slave are independent firefighting robots and are capable of detecting and fighting fire on their own. This paper provides a detailed implementation of object and fire detection, and use of Bluetooth module to provide communication between the nodes.
Index Terms— Bluetooth; Firefighting Flame; Ultrasonic.
I. INTRODUCTION
Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multi-robot systems, which consists of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. Firefighting robots, on the other hand, are devices that use sensors to learn the environmental conditions and have a software that instructs them to function in a required manner. Firefighting robots incorporating swarm refers to a system with multiple robots that are controlled by one main robot to overcome firefighting problems.
There are various types of firefighting robots present which may be broadly classified as fixed or mobile systems. In this project, fixed firefighting robots are used. Fixed firefighting robots mainly use ultrasonic sensors or IR sensors whereas mobile systems have more advanced features that include navigation. In either type of robots, it is possible to implement swarm intelligence. Swarm intelligence is derived from the study of bees or termites [2]; where each individual termite or bee learns its job from the neighboring one. Swarm behavior may also be referred to as a collective or emergent behavior. Each individual robot is capable of extinguishing fire, and it adapts to the environment quickly using the sensors.
