Development of firefighting robot system applicable to petroleum complex fires

Abstract

Japan is a country with many earthquakes. So there is a risk that the petroleum complex will fire. The tank fires in petrochemical complexes are special disasters that are large and difficult to extinguish. The major issues are that the radiant heat from the flame is large and there is a risk of explosion, so that people cannot easily approach the disaster site. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency has submitted a public invitation for "R & D on a firefighting robot system for disaster response" (a five-year project starting in fiscal 2014), and has completed the world's highest-level firefighting robot system that can operate near the fire site. The challenge was to make the robot resistant to radiant heat and handle the water supply hose without human assistance. This document describes the outline of the project, and the outlines of the water cannon robot and the hose extension robot development that I developed in this project.