International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 7, Issue 4, April-2016 385

ISSN 2229-5518

AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISHING ROBOTIC

VEHICLE
Anij Joseph John,Ashik K,Avinash Vishnu KS,Fahmi P,Henna P

Abstract— Fire disaster is a common threat to lives and property. An automatic fire extinguishing strategy provides real time moni-
toring, exploration and programmed fire alarm. This paper present the design of a low cost, robust and secure fire protection system for
buildings. Its sends early alarm when the fire occurs and help to reduce the fire damage. This system consist of a smoke detector and a
temperature sensor whose outputs are connected to the controller. The system takes into account the density of smoke and thus the
probability of false alarms can be avoided.
An ATMEGA 328 microcontroller is used here to control the total arrangement and the test results through hardware prototype
show that the validity of proposed approach which achieves design requirements as well as increase system reliability.

Index Terms—Analog to Digital Converter,Advanced Virtual RISC,Fire Fighting Mobile Robot,Infra Red,Local Oscillator

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1. INTRODUCTION

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HIS Robot is defined as a mechanical design that is capable of detects the obstacle and sends a message to the ATMEGA IC.It
performing human tasks or behaving in a human like man- gives a reply to avoid the obstacle and it moves on.The robot
ner.Building a robot requires expertise and complex program- will check for the threshold voltage which is set in the pro-
ming.It's about building system and putting together motors,ame grammable IC.If the threshold voltage is high, then the first
sensor,wires among other important components.A firefighter robot will call the second robot to coordinate the fire extin-
robot is one that has a small fire extinguisher added to it.By at- guishing and if it is less,then the first robot will alone maintain
taching a small fire extinguisher to the robot,the automation put the fire extinguishing.A water pump is also attatched to the
out the fire by human controlling.This paper covers the design
robot to spray the water in the fire location.The robot will con-
tinue working until all the fire portions are completely extin-
and construction of a robot that is able to sense and extinguish
guished.The robot 1 and the robot 2 acts as a master slave rela-
fire.Fire fighters face risky situations when extinguishing fires and
tion.First robot will act as the master and the second as its
rescuing victims,it is an inevitable part of being a fire fighter.In
slave.
contrast,a robot can function by it self or be controlled from a dis-
tance,which means that fire fighting and rescue activity could be
executed with out putting fire fighters at risk by using robot tech- 2.2. BLOCK DIAGRAM
nology instead.In other words,robot decrease the need for fire
fightersto get into dangerous situations.This robot provides fire Power supply
protection when there is are in tunnel or an industry by using
automatic control of of robot by the use of micro controller in or-
der to reduced loss of life and property damage.This Robot uses
dc motors,castor wheel,micro controller,sensors,pump and sprin- Ultra- Motor
kler. sonic
Sensor
2. EXPERIMENTAL DESCRIPTION
IR Water
2.1 Project Description ATMEGA
module Pumb
The proposed system is to design and construct an auto- 328
matic fire extinguishing robotic vehicle using low cost and
locally available materials. This is done by using a gas sensor Gas Servo Mo-
,IR module which senses the intensity of the fire.The robot Sensor tor
senses the fire by using two sensors ,one gas sensor MQ6 to
detect gas or smoke and sends the message to the AT-
MEGA328 which is the controlling part of robot and an IR
module which transmit IR rays and according to the intensi- Fig1:Block Diagram
ty,the flame is detected.An Ultrasonic sensor which generates
an ultra sound waves is used as an obstacle detector which
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ISSN 2229-5518
2.2.1. BLOCK DIAGRAM DESCRIPTION
Block Diagram consist of ATMEGA328, Ultra sonic sen-
sor,Gas sensor, IR module, Motor, Water pump,Servo motor, 3. CONCLUSION
Power supply… The main element of this project is ATMEGA
328,According to the sensor inputs the controller direct all The micro controller based adjustable fire extin-
other outputs.The ultrasonic module generate ultra sound guishing system has been introduced.Experimental result
waves.It is used as an obstacle detector.when an obstacle is that is showed that the micro controller is a reliable instru-
detected it send a message to ATMEGA 328.An IR module is ment to control the fire extinguisher.This system is appli-
used to transmit IR rays and according to the light intensity cable to different size of fire extinguisher and high control-
the flame is detected.A gas sensor is used to detect the intensi- ling capability over them.The simple design of its allows
ty of fire.MQ6 sensors is used here as gas sensor.When the minimum of maintenance work.There is a greatly reduced
power is switched on, it detects the gas or smoke and it sends of malfunction,as no moving part the risk of false alarm is
a message to the ATMEGA IC.If the flame is detected, the ro- also re-duced.The price performance relationship is cost
bot starts moving towards the flame.It is done by a mo- effective.The application of developed fire fighting robot is
tor.After detecting the location of the flame, the robot comes used in the petrochemical plants,hazardous area such as
closer to the location,and the pump is turned ON till the flame radio active environment unstable structure,and high pres-
is extinguished. A water pump is used to extinguish the fire by sure vessel.Currently,the development of fire fighting robot
sprinkling water on the detected area.A servo motor is at- still not fully supported by local authority or fire depart-
tached to the robot.It can rotate in an angle between 40 degree ment is to be implemented during critical scene and reduce
and 120 degree and can sprey water in the location of fire.
the risk fire fighter.Effort need to be made to encourage the
2.2.3 ALGORITHM use of fire fighting robot by designing a low cost and good

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Step1 : Start. quality machine..
Step2 : Initiallize all ports.
Step3 : Scan for fire. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Step4 : If the fire is detected call for robot1.Otherwise go to
This paper was supported and guided by our beloved teacher
step2
Ms.Shoby.N.Shaji. it is also supported by
Step5 : If the threshold voltage does not exeeds go to next
Mr.KrishnaKumar(HOD of ece department,RCET).The au-
Step.Otherwise go to next step7.
thors would like to acknowledge the comments made by
Step6 : Robot1 moves to the location of fire.
teachers and friends which contribute to improve the paper.
Step7 : Call for both robot1 and robot2.
Step8 : Robot1 and robot2 moves the location of fire.
Step9 : Pump1 is ON.
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• Henna P is currently pursuing Bachelor degree program in electronics and
communication engineering in Calicut University, india, PH-
+919544051210. E-mail: [email protected]
• Fahmi P is currently pursuing bachelor degree program in electronics and
communication engineering in calicut University, india, PH-+919744373637.
E-mail:[email protected]
• Anij joseph john is currently pursuing bachelor degree program in electronics
and communication engineering in calicut University, india, PH-
+919995722871. E-mail:[email protected]
• Ashik K is currently pursuing bachelor degree program in electronics and
communication engineering in calicut University, india, PH-+919846326075.
E-mail:[email protected]
• Avinash Vishnu k s is currently pursuing bachelor degree program in elec-
tronics and communication engineering in calicut University, india, PH-
+919633672342. E-mail:avinashvishnu9119@gmail. IJSER © 2016
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