Design of Autonomous Fire Hose Docking System for Intelligent Fire-Fighting Robots

Abstract

Although existing fire-fighting robots have been able to extinguish fires, the docking task of fire hoses has always been the key obstacle to achieving autonomous fire extinguishing functions for fire-fighting robots. Therefore, it is crucial to enable robots to autonomously dock fire hoses to fire hydrants. To solve this problem, we design a new multi-DOF docking mechanism and develop a vision-guided autonomous fire hose docking system based on a robot operating system. When the robot detects the fire, the camera mounted on it can guide the docking system to complete the docking of the fire hose, laying the foundation for the robot to achieve autonomous fire extinguishing.