Automated Fire Controlling for Structured Zones by Autonomous Robots

This paper presents a practical application of autonomous robots - a robot that has the ability to locate a fire in a structured environment and extinguish it. The robot has built around the hybrid paradigm, where both the reactive and deliberative controllers are used. The robot´s ecological niche is on top of an electrically wired grid of arena. The robot gets the fire alerts through this structured network and navigates to the fire point through its own decisions. In addition, a person sitting at a central monitoring station sees the entire process of fire controlling effort from a user interface updated by both the robot and the wired grid of arena. Other major concerns were preserving the efficiency and effectiveness at a higher degree.