Design and Implementation of a Safety Fire Fighter (SAFF) Robot with Dual Controlling Mechanism

This paper focuses on building a smart firefighting robot with multiple applications. In today's world, the effects of fire and explosion hazard is very destructive in terms of lives lost, injuries and property damage. This robot is built in such a way to minimize the damage due to any fire accident. The SAFF robot has dual controlling mechanism. It can operate both manually and autonomously. In manual mode, the robot is manually controlled by a fire fighter to extinguish fire by using water. On the other hand, in the autonomous mode, the robot can automatically detect the fire, walk towards the fire and extinguish it by using carbon di oxide. It is an obstacle avoiding robot which detects fire by using gas and flame sensors. It has two types of fire extinguishers installed inside its body. It can also view what is occurring in front of it through a camera. The entire setup consists of three Arduino boards, buck modules, sensors, a GSM module, relays, servo motors and dc gear motors which all are powered by two 12V lithium polymer batteries.