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Abstract—Fire incident is a disaster that can potentially cause productivity in industry while reducing the cost and electronic
the loss of life, property damage and permanent disability to the waste in a long run.
affected victim. They can also suffer from prolonged
psychological and trauma. Fire fighters are primarily tasked to Studies on the use of humanoid robots are actively carried
handle fire incidents, but they are often exposed to higher risks out to minimize firefighters’ injuries and deaths as well as
when extinguishing fire, especially in hazardous environments increasing productivity, safety, efficiency and quality of the
such as in nuclear power plant, petroleum refineries and gas task given [16]. Robot can be divided into several groups such
tanks. They are also faced with other difficulties, particularly if as Tele-robots, Telepresence robots, Mobile robots,
fire occurs in narrow and restricted places, as it is necessary to Autonomous robots and Androids robots. Telepresence robot
explore the ruins of buildings and obstacles to extinguish the fire are similar to a tele-robot with the main difference of
and save the victim. With high barriers and risks in fire providing feedback from video, sound and other data. Hence,
extinguishment operations, technological innovations can be tele-presence robots are widely used in many fields requiring
utilized to assist firefighting. Therefore, this paper presents the monitoring capability, such as in child nursery and education,
development of a firefighting robot dubbed QRob that can and on improving older adult’s social and daily activities [17,
extinguish fire without the need for fire fighters to be exposed to 18]. Mobile robot is designed to navigate and carry out tasks
unnecessary danger. QRob is designed to be compact in size than with the intervention of human beings [19, 20]. Meanwhile,
other conventional fire-fighting robot in order to ease small autonomous robots can perform the task independently and
location entry for deeper reach of extinguishing fire in narrow
receive the power from the environment, as opposed to
space. QRob is also equipped with an ultrasonic sensor to avoid it
from hitting any obstacle and surrounding objects, while a flame
android robots which are built to mimic humans [21].
sensor is attached for fire detection. This resulted in QRob In this paper, a firefighting robot is proposed. The main
demonstrating capabilities of identifying fire locations function of this robot is to become an unmanned support
automatically and ability to extinguish fire remotely at particular vehicle, developed to search and extinguish fire. There are
distance. QRob is programmed to find the fire location and stop several existing types of vehicles for firefighting at home and
at maximum distance of 40 cm from the fire. A human operator extinguish forest fires [22]. Our proposed robot is designed to
can monitor the robot by using camera which connects to a
be able to work on its own or be controlled remotely. By using
smartphone or remote devices.
such robots, fire identification and rescue activities can be
Keywords—Firefighting robot; compact size robot; ultrasonic done with higher security without placing fire fighters at high
sensor; flame sensor; remote control risk and dangerous conditions. In other words, robots can
reduce the need for fire fighters to get into dangerous
I. INTRODUCTION situations. Additionally, having a compact size and automatic
A robot is an automated device which performs functions control also allows the robot to be used when fire occurs in
usually attributed to humans or machines tasked with small and narrow spaces with hazardous environments such as
repetitive or flexible set of actions. Numerous studies have tunnels or nuclear power plants [23, 24].
shown that robot can be beneficial in medicine [1], Thermite and FireRob are two current available fire fighter
rehabilitation [2-6], rescue operation [7, 8] and industry [9]. robots that have been used widely in industry. Thermite
Over the years, robotics has been introduced in various (produced by Howe and Howe Technologies Inc) is a
industries. The industrial robots are multi-function firefighting robot that uses a remote control and can operate as
manipulators designed for more specialized materials, far as 400 m. It can deliver up to 1200 gpm of water or 150 psi
divisions, gadgets or devices through various programmatic of foam. The size of this robot is 187.96 cm x 88.9 cm x 139.7
movements to perform various tasks [10]. In line with the cm. This robot powers up to 25 bhp (18.64 kW) using a diesel
Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), there is demand for a one engine. The main component in the design of this robot are
system that can control, communicate and integrate different multi-directional nozzle that is backed by a pump that can
robots regardless of their types and specifications. Machine deliver 600 gpm (2271.25 l/min). This robot is designed for
learning has also heated up interest in robotics, although only use in extreme danger areas, such as planes fires, processing
a portion of recent development in robotics can be associated factories, chemical plants or nuclear reactors [25].
with machine learning. Recent robotic development project
has embedded machine learning algorithms [11-15] to FireRob (Manufactured by Croatian manufacturer DOK-
increase the intelligence in robots. This will increase the ING) is a fire-fighting vehicle controlled by a single operator
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2) Ultrasonic sensor: One of the most crucial aspect in At first, QRob is originally assumed to be at the center
inventing an autonomous target detection robot is a barrier and position with the coordinate point at the moment considered as
obstacle avoidance. A sensor must be compact, low cost, (0, 0). When the rotation takes place on the z-axis, as shown
simple to produce and functional on a larger scale. Moreover, as the θ in Fig. 4, the position change from the original to the
final position gives a new coordinate to QRob and is
it should be able to sense things with enough limits to let
considered as (x, y) on the coordinate plane. (Xm, Ym) in the
robots to react and travel appropriately.The existing sensors figure is the main surface coordinate plane and (Xr, Yr) is the
that suit all these requirements are ultrasonic sensors. The HC- QRob coordinate plane.
SR04 ultrasonic sensor is utilized in this study to determine
the distance within the range of 2 cm to 400 cm with an angle [ ] [ ] [ ] (1)
15 degrees. This sensor transmits waves into the air and Equation (1) is to determine the coordinate and angular
receive reflected waves from the object. It has four output pin position for the QRob, where , and are the coordinates
such as reference voltage (VCC) (operate around 5V), ground regarding to the main surface plane (Xm, Ym) and and are
pin (GND), digital output (DO) and analog output (AO). the driving and turning velocity with respect to the coordinates
3) DC motor with wheel: DC geared motor with rubber regarding to the QRob coordinate plane (Xr, Yr). Then,
wheel are suitable material for this project. This DC motor are adopting differential drive vehicle as the kinematic model of
suitable to replace 2 WD and 4 WD car chassis. The working QRob resulting,
voltage for DC motor is around 5V to 10 V DC. While the ( )
(2)
ratio of the gear is 48:1. Suitable current for this motor is 73.2
mA. DC motor is used to move the robot to the fire location. ( )
(3)
4) Water pump: The water pump is important part in this
robot as it will pump water or soap to extinguish the fire where r is radius of the wheel and d is the distance of
depending on the class of fire that occurs. Small-size and instantaneous center of rotation.
light-weight category of water pump has been selected for use All the data from sensor is monitored and controlled by
in this project. Arduino. Fig. 5 shows the Arduino program which all the
Moreover, it has low noise, high effectiveness and minimal input and output pin in Arduino need to be declared. Fig. 6
power consumption. The optimal voltage for this water pump shows the forward and reverse code movement for QRob to
is 6V. Working voltage for this water pump is around 4V to find the fire location. Fig. 7 shows the flowchart of Fire
Fighting Robot (QRob) using ultrasonic sensor and flame
12V with the working current 0.8A.
sensor. These codes will be used to program the movement of
5) Transmitter and remote control: In this study, the QRob to find the fire location.
wireless remote control transmitter and receiver with 4 control
modes will be used. Model number of this receiver or remote
is S4C-AC110. This remote have four buttons. The operating
voltage for this remote control is AC 100 – 120 V, while the
working voltage range of relay are AC 110 – 240 V or DC 0 –
28 V. The model number of the transmitter is C-4. The
distance of the remote control is 100 m or 300ft. Power supply
for this transmitter are 12 V. The transmitting frequency is
315 MHz / 433 MHz. By utilizing the transmitter and remote
control, QRob can be controlled from distant places where the
operator who controls it will be in a safe place while the robot
will enter into a dangerous fire area.
III. CONTROL PROGRAMMING
Fig. 4 shows the relationship between QRob coordinate Fig. 5. Declaration Code.
plane with main surface plane.
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