CeaseFire: The Fire Fighting Robot

Abstract

This paper presents CeaseFire - the firefighting robot developed to serve firefighting crews in real-time situations. The development aims to reduce the risk to human lives during fire hazards. The robot has the capability to extinguish fires using water and carbon dioxide sprays, protect itself from burns using mist sprays, and deliver live video frames of the fire sites. The merits of the design include ease of handling, quick on-site initiation and long range remote controllability. Fire-fighters can send the robot in to the hazard-affected site; analyze the exact situation using temperature, air-quality and visual inspections of prone structures; and subsequently stop the fire source using on-board extinguishers. Its quick and efficient response to test situations demonstrates its reliability of usage in real world cases.