• DocumentCode
    3002163
  • Title

    FireDroid - An automated fire extinguishing robot

  • Author

    Boo Siew Khoo ; Siew Wen Chin ; Leong Yee Soo ; Chuah, Edwin

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Sci. & Technol., KDU Coll., Nibong Tebal, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Nov. 29 2013-Dec. 1 2013
  • Firstpage
    356
  • Lastpage
    360
  • Abstract
    The global warming effect has causes the earth atmosphere temperature increasing rapidly and leads to more natural and human made fire disaster. An automated fire extinguishing robot (FireDroid) which can detect flame and extinguish the flame is built. This fire extinguishing robot mostly place indoor such as houses, offices, and tall buildings. When fire occurs in the house, the fire extinguishing robot will be able to sense the flame and move to the fire location. After fire location is locked and flame distance is measured, water is being pumped out from the water tank and fire is extinguished completely.
  • Keywords
    fires; mobile robots; service robots; FireDroid; automated fire extinguishing robot; fire location; flame detection; flame distance; flame sensing; water tank; Acoustics; Conferences; Control systems; DC motors; Fires; Robot sensing systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Mindeb
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-1506-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSCE.2013.6719989
  • Filename
    6719989