FIRE FIGHTER ROBOT USING ARDUINO

FIRE FIGHTER ROBOT USING ARDUINO

Suma M O , Abdul Wahid C H, Manoj Gowda H N

Abstract—Fire accidents are considered as one of the most dangerous form of accidents. It can cause loss of life, permanent disabilities (like permanent blindness, loss of body parts and major physical damages), property damage etc. Here when such incidents occur the first person we call upon for rescue is Fire Fighters. Fire fighters are primarily tasked to handle fire incidents, but they are often exposed to higher risks when extinguishing fire, especially in hazardous environments such as in nuclear power plant, petroleum refineries and gas tanks. They are also faced with other difficulties, particularly if fire occurs in narrow and restricted places, as it is necessary to explore the ruins of buildings and obstacles to extinguish the fire and save the victim. With high barriers and risks in fire extinguisher operations, technological innovations can be utilized to assist firefighting. Therefore, this paper presents the development of a FIRE FIGHTER ROBOT that can extinguish fire without the need for fire fighters to be exposed to unnecessary danger. FIRE FIGHTER ROBOT is designed to be compact in size than other conventional fire-fighting robot in order to ease small location entry for deeper reach of extinguishing fire. This robot is also equipped with an ultrasonic sensor to avoid it from hitting any obstacle and surrounding objects, while a flame sensor is attached for fire detection. This resulted in robot ease the capabilities of identifying fire locations automatically and ability to extinguish fire remotely at particular distance. Robot is programmed to find the fire location and stop at maximum distance of 40 cm from the fire.

Keywords — Fire accidents, fire fighters, hazardous, extinguisher