Fire-Fighting Mobile Robotics and Interdisciplinary Design-Comparative Perspectives

Pack, Daniel J.; Avanzato, Robert Louis; Ahlgren, David J.; Verner, Igor M.

doi:10.1109/te.2004.825547

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“…Meanwhile, competitions are a commonly-used way in engineering education [17,18]. Especially for robotics education, such kinds of competitions are usually problem-based [19][20][21] and design-oriented [22][23][24] in a university setting. There is another type of extramural robot contest called ABU (Asia Broadcast Union) Asia-Pacific robot contest.…”

Section: Robotics Competitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

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This paper presents a robot design competition called 'IDC Robocon' as an effective tool for engineering education. The International Design Contest (IDC) Robocon competition has several benefits in creating a meaningful design experience for undergraduate engineering students and includes an international flavour as participants of the competition hail from all around the world. The problem posed to the contestants is to design, build and test mobile robots that are capable of accomplishing a task. A primary goal of the competition is to provide undergraduates with a meaningful design experience with an emphasis on mechanical design, electronic circuits and programming. It is hoped that by placing the emphasis on the design, the course will encourage more undergraduates to go into the field of engineering design. This paper presents the latest 2015 IDC Robocon (the 26th edition) in detail and discusses course of events and results in terms of the educational experience. In this competition, a simulated space problem of cleaning the debris from orbit is proposed for the latest IDC Robocon competition. Teams, comprising of students from multiple countries work together to develop robotic systems to compete with each other in collecting the foam balls and delivering them to the rotating the holder.

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Section: Robotics Competitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

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“…Automatic firefighting robots usually adopt pyroelectric infrared flame detection technology. Sensors installed on the firefighting robot with the moving robot to search and locate a fire source [9,10]. However, this fire detection method is easily affected by the vibration of robotic motion, external temperature change and electromagnetic interference, which may cause false alarms and omission alarms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Firefighting robot with video full-closed loop control

Wu¹,

Li²,

Ye³

et al. 2016

Int. J. SAFE

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In view of the many problems in firefighting robots, such as complicated flame positioning, poor environmental adaptability, and difficult installation and debugging, a new firefighting robot design is presented with video full closed-loop feedback to extinguish ground fire in this paper. The firefighting robot consists of a 2-DOF robot, a monocular camera, and a controller. The monocular camera installed on the second link of the robot is utilized to detect and locate ground flames. The robot can dynamically adjust the water landing point to track a flame in real-time through motion control, as the camera is specifically designed with an additional infrared narrowband pass filter and a filter-switching mechanism. An algorithm of detecting and positioning for flame and water landing point is proposed based on image processing and robotic kinematics. Experimental results show that the firefighting robot with video full closed-loop feedback can realize real-time flame detection, location, and sprinkler, and can dynamically track fire location within the monitoring scope. The distance error between fire and the landing point of the water jet can be controlled within a narrow range. Moreover, this firefighting robot is easy to install, debug and have good environment adaptability, and provides efficient and safe solutions for complicated firefighting environment. At the same time, due to its small size and convenient calibration features, this firefighting robot is especially suitable for large space environments.

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“…Mobile robots are increasingly used in industry [1], domestic needs [2] (lawn mowers, vacuum cleaners, toys), hazardous environments [3][4][5] (firefighting, military applications), and also for educational purposes [6][7][8][9][10]. The increasing trend of mobile robot applications is expected to continue in future as well.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most widely known type of a robot is a common mobile robot shown in Figure 1. This type of robot is used in many applications [4,11,13]. By far the most well known are the line-tracing applications [8,[11][12][13][14].…”

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Vision‐based control of a line‐tracing mobile robot

Simončič

Podržaj

2011

Comp Applic In Engineering

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In this article, a vision-based control of a line-tracing mobile robot is presented. The position of the robot is determined based on the analysis of the images obtained by a ceiling mounted camera. Such an approach has some advantages compared to the more common robot mounted camera approach. The robot detection algorithm uses some well-known image processing algorithms. As the PC is common these days and the mobile robot is quite easy to build or buy, the only prerequisite is a camera. The time delay of a web camera is too large so a FireWire CCD camera is preferred for better performance. The control system presented can be an ideal educational tool for an introductory level course in image processing, image analysis, or machine vision. As the line-tracing problem is well known to everyone studying mechatronics or robotics, the approach presented in this article should be of great interest to all students in these fields, because it offers an alternative solution to the line-tracing problem. Besides that this approach makes it possible to implement a more advanced predictive control algorithm. In order to make the experiment even more interesting, an obstacle avoidance algorithm is presented as well. ß

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Fire-Fighting Mobile Robotics and Interdisciplinary Design-Comparative Perspectives

Cited by 70 publications

References 11 publications

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

IDC Robocon: A Transnational Teaming Competition for Project-Based Design Education in Undergraduate Robotics

Firefighting robot with video full-closed loop control

Vision‐based control of a line‐tracing mobile robot

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