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The International journal of analytical and experimental modal analysis ISSN NO:0886-9367

FIRE FIGHTING ROBOT

K. SHAMILI DEVI #1, K. AKHILESWAR #2, CH. VINAYAKA #3, M. KARTHIK#4,

Y. K. VISWANADHAM *5
#1 Student, Dept of IT, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleru,
Krishna(Dt), Andhra Pradesh, [email protected]
#2 Student, Dept of IT, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleru
Krishna(Dt), Andhra Pradesh, [email protected]
#3 Student, Dept of IT, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleru
Krishna(Dt), Andhra Pradesh, [email protected]
#4 Student, Dept of IT, Gudlavalleru Engineering College, Gudlavalleru
Krishna(Dt), Andhra Pradesh, [email protected]
*5 Associate Professor, Dept of IT, Gudlavalleru Engineering College,
Krishna(Dt), Andhra Pradesh, [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Fire incident is a disaster that can potentially cause the loss of life,
property damage and permanent disability to the affected victim. Major fire
accidents do occur in industries like nuclear power plants, petroleum refineries,
gas tanks, chemical factories and other large-scale fire industries resulting in quite
serious consequences. Thousands of people have lost their lives in such mishaps.
Therefore, this project is enhanced to control fire through a robotic vehicle. With
the advancement in the field of Robotics, human intervention is becoming less
every day and robots are used widely for purpose of safety. In our day to day life
fire accidents are very common and sometimes it becomes very difficult for fireman
to save human life. In such case firefighting robot comes in picture.

Keywords: Firefighting Robot; IR Distance sensor; Flame sensor; OV7670 Camera

Module; Arduino mega2560; DC motor; Driver module

I. INTRODUCTION

Fires are among the most important form of problems. Robot industry has a
lot of work in this area. So today robot is more commonly used to reduce the

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human efforts. The need of Fire extinguisher Robot that can detect and extinguish a
fire on its own. Robotics is one of the fastest growing engineering fields of today.
Robots are designed to remove the human factor from labour intensive or dangerous
work and also to act in inaccessible environment. With the invention of such a
device, lives and property can be saved with minimal damage caused by the fire. As
an engineer’s we have to design a prototype that could autonomously detect the fire
and extinguish it. The Fire Fighter Robot is designed to search for a fire in the house
or industry for extinguish the fire.
The main and only work is to deploy the robot in a fire prone area and
the robot will automatically work once it detects a fire breakout. This prototype helps
in Rescue operations during fire accidents where the entry of service man is very
difficult in the fire prone area. There are several existing types of vehicles for
firefighting at home and extinguish forest fires. Our proposed robot is designed to be
able to work on its own or be controlled remotely. By using such robots, fire
identification and rescue activities can be done with higher security without placing
fire fighters at high risk and dangerous conditions. In other words, robots can reduce
the need for fire fighters to get into dangerous situations.
When we the field of firefighting has long been a dangerous one,
and there have been numerous and devastating losses because of a lack in
technological advancement. Additionally, the current methods applied in firefighting
are inadequate and inefficient relying heavily on humans who are prone to error, no
matter how extensively they have been trained. A recent trend that has become
popular is to use robots instead of humans to handle fire hazards. This is mainly
because they can be used in situations that are too dangerous for any individual to
involve themselves in. In our project, we develop a robot that is able to locate and
extinguish fire in a given environment. The robot navigates the area and avoids any
obstacles it faces in its excursion. Arduino board acts as a brain of the whole control
circuitry .Robot consist of the two sensors that are interfaced in the control circuitry.
Sensors are used to detect fire prone area all directions and moves the robo to fire
location. When the robot reaches fire zone then a pump extinguisher is attached on
the robot comes into action to extinguish the fire.

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II. LITERATURE SURVEY

[1] Development of Fire Fighting Robot (QRob)

Fire incident is a disaster that can potentially cause the loss of life, property
damage and permanent disability to the affected victim. 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. Therefore, this paper presents the development of a firefighting
robot dubbed QRob that can extinguish fire without the need for fire fighters to be
exposed to unnecessary danger. QRob 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 in narrow space. QRob 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 QRob
demonstrating capabilities of identifying fire locations automatically and ability to
extinguish fire remotely at particular distance. QRob is programmed to find the fire
location and stop at maximum distance of 40 cm from the fire. A human operator
can monitor the robot by using camera which connects to a smartphone or remote
devices.

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[2] A Survey on Fire Fighting Robot Controlled Using Android Application

Detecting fire and extinguishing it is a dangerous job that puts life of a fire fighter
at risk. There are many fire accidents which fire fighter had to lose their lives in
the line of duty each year throughout the world. The research and development in
the field of Artificial Intelligence has given rise to Robotics. Robots are
implemented in various areas like Industries, Manufacturing and Medicines etc.

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Hence, Robotics can be used to assist fire fighters to perform this task of
firefighting and thus reduce the risk of their lives. Fire Fighter is a robot designed
to use in such extreme conditions. It can be operated and controlled by remote user
and has the ability to extinguish fire after locating the source of fire. It is equipped
with a monitoring system and operates through a wireless communication system.
The fire detection system is designed using the sensors mounted on the fire fighter
robot. The robot is controlled autonomously using Android application. Android
mobile phone platform developed by Google has gained popularity among software
developers due to its powerful capabilities and open platform. Therefore, Android
is a great platform to control a Robotic system. Android provides many resources
and already integrates lot of sensors. This concept helps to generate interest as well
as innovation in field of robotics while working towards a practical and obtainable
solution to save lives and mitigate the risk of property damage.

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III. EXISTING SYSTEM

The common conventional firefighting methods involve fire brigades, portable fire
extinguisher (hand held) and sprinklers. These conventional methods consume lot
of time to reach the place of the mishap like the fire brigade must be deployed from
the fire station and should get through the traffic and reach the fire struck area, the
portable extinguisher is also no gift because it is generally place at one off the
corners of the building which may be difficult to reach and it needs constant
maintenance. On the other hand the sprinkler and smoke detector set up is very non
reliable method because the sprinkler pipes has any defect may not provide enough
pressure and it is suited to cover large areas.

PROBLEMS IN EXISTING SYSTEM:

The problem with existing system is that exposure to the hazardous and chaotic fire
environment, rather than to the fire itself, is the most significant cause of injury and
death in fires. The reachability of precise information in real-time on

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the conditions directly at the center of the fire ground is a crucial factor in the
guidance of rescue actions together with feasible counter-plans. Unfortunately the
firefighting environments are normally hard to reach and restricted in accessibility
by obstacles, tumbledown architectures and visibility by smoke, dangerous gases
or dust. Therefore, the fire scene is an information-poor environment due to lack
of information on location of fire, firefighters and victims, and the search and
rescue opportunities are previously unimaginable due to lack of situational
conditions and real-time information for targeted decision making.to this the
accidents occurs. Additionally, the current methods applied in firefighting are
inadequate and inefficient relying heavily on humans who are prone to error, no
matter how extensively they have been trained.

IV. PROPOSED SYSTEM

The proposed model is able to detect presence of fire using flame sensor and
calculates object distance using ultrasonic sensor and moves the robot to fire
accident location. It contains gear motors and motor driver to control the movement
of robot. When it detects fire it communicates with microcontroller (Arduino
MEGA) and the robo will move towards the fire affected area. The fire extinguisher
is mounted on the robotic vehicle which is then controlled over the wireless
communication so that it extinguishes the fire automatically.
ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM
➢ The robot will be used at places where it is dangerous for humans to enter.
➢ Capability of sensing accurately with increased flexibility.
➢ Reduce human effort.
➢ Reliable and economical.
➢ It reduces the time delay in reaching fire affected area.
➢ It reduce the errors and the limitations that are faced by human fire fighters.
➢ Sensors have long life time and less cost.
V. METHODOLOGY

Initially we need to make sure all the components are connected and give
power supply through an external device. The robot remains idle initially, later it

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starts rotating in 360 degrees to detect the presence of object with the help of flame
sensor. If the object is not within the range it moves ahead and then again checks
the presence of object within the range. The signal is sensed to the one of the 5
channel flame sensor and then robot moves if it signals to center sensor so that we
can move to the object accurately. After detecting the flame it moves to certain
distance and again checks the range of distance until it moves near the flame object.
After it reaches it then in turn activates fire extinguisher or water pump to sprinkle
the water on fire object.

A. DESIGN

Fig 1: Block Diagram

B. HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION

This robo consists of several types of sensor and the vital part of this robo is arduino
mega2560 which controls all other components. Fig1 shows that arduino is used as
a microcontroller connected with other components. Motor Driver is used to activate
the moving of the DC motor. It also consists of flame sensor and IR distance sensor
as input of the system. Fire extinguisher is mounted on robot to reduce fire.

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1) Flame Sensor: This sensor is mainly designed for detecting as well as

responding to the occurrence of a fire or flame. It detects the fire with 5 flame
sensors which are arranged with 30 degrees. Detection range is 700-1100nm.
Detection angle is 600.

2) Temperature sensor: LM35 is a temperature measuring device having an

analog output voltage proportional to the temperature. Minimum and
Maximum Input Voltage is 35V and -2V respectively. Typically 5V.

3) IR Distance Sensor: This sensor provides accurate distance measurements

within the 10-80cm (4-32") range. Infrared proximity sensors work by
detecting the reflection of an invisible infrared light. It is a sharp GP2Y0A21
IR Infrared Distance Sensor is an analog proximity sensor with a range of 10-
80cm. Operating voltage: 4.5 V to 5.5 V. Distance measuring range: 4 to 30 cm.

4) DC Motor: A DC Motor is a type of electric motor that converts DC electrical

power to mechanical power i.e. a DC supply is converted to rotation or
movement. Although motor gives 500 RPM at 12V, motor runs smoothly from
4V to 12V and gives the wide range of RPM, and torque.

5) Driver Module: Motor drive module comes with its own four HG7881 chip.
Can drive 4 DC motors, or two 4-wire 2-phase stepping motor. Suitable for the
motor range: motor operating voltage 2.5V-12V.

6) OV7670 Camera Module: It is a FIFO camera Module available from different

Manufacturers with different pin Configurations. TheOV7670 provides full
frame, windowed 8-bit images in a wide range of formats. The image array is
capable of operating at up to 30 frames per second (fps) in VGA. The OV7670
camera module is a low cost 0.3 mega pixel CMOS color camera module, it
can output 640x480 VGA resolution image at 30fps.

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C. FLOWCHART WORKING

Fig 2: Flowchart of Robot

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VI. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

Initialization Of Robot

Fig 3: Initialization

Detection of fire by robot

Fig 4: Fire Detection

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Movement of robot towards fire detected object

Fig 5: Robot moves near to object

VII. CONCLUSION

This project describes about the real time firefighting robot which moves in
a constant speed, identify the fire and then extinguish it with the help of pumping
mechanism. It has advantageous features such as ability to detect location of fire
automatically besides having a compact body and lightweight structure. The robot
can be used at a place that has a small entrance or in small spaces because it has a
compact structure. The system can potentially be useful to accompany fire fighters
and prevent an outbreak. The operator is able to extinguish fire using remote
control from longer distance. Operators can also monitor the environmental
conditions during the process of firefighting by using the camera. From the
experimental results, the robot can sense smokes and fire accurately in a short time.

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VIII. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

❖ Some of interfacing applications which can be made are controlling home

appliances, robotics movements, Speech Assisted technologies etc.
❖ By making it GPS enabled, robot can be controlled from remote station also.
❖ A CO2 booster can be attached to make it powerful extinguisher.
❖ It can be further expanded with voice interactive system facility.

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