Still a Work in progress, this robot Navigates around with an Ultrasonic Distance Sensor and when there is fire(Candle), it detects the Infra Red sent by the flame and puts it out with the Fan.
The robot looks nice and all and a fan might be a good option to blow out a candle, but you are aware that any other fire a fan blowing towards it would only make it worse, right?
Yes, but I am thinking of replacing the IR Sensors because during broad daylight or because of open windows the Robot does get blinded as the Sun emits Infrared as well. Maybe I can use thermocouples. Thank you!
Just thought I’d throw this out there, the Wii Remote uses a low-resolution IR camera to detect it’s orientation relating to two IR LEDs (sensor bar). Could a similar system be of use to a firefighting robot like this? Replacing the sensor bar LEDs with a single candle flame.
I guess it will still have the same problem of being blinded by other IR sources such as sunlight.
Would a thermocouple be sensitive enough? Would it not need to be in the immediate vicinity of the flame to detect it? Perhaps a parabolic reflector and thermocouple could give some directional sensing of emissive heat.
Are you planning to participate at the Trinity Firefighting robot contest with your creation? Looks like the robot is deisgned for that type of contest.
