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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: GanPawl on December 09, 2010, 08:32:06 AM

Title: Automated fire-fighting robot
Post by: GanPawl on December 09, 2010, 08:32:06 AM

Hi,

   I am planning to do an automated fire-fighting robot for my HND project, however i cannot find a suitable sensor to detect the candles.  Basically i want the robot to work as follows; the sensor senses the candle and the robot (running on tracks like a tank) turns towards the candle and moves towards it.  As soon as the LM35s detect the set temperature, a solenoid valve is triggered and the candle is lit off.  The process is repeated for neighboring candles.  I am using 89C51AC2 micro-controller.

Any recommendations please for a fairly accurate and easy to interface sensor?

Thanks in advance
JP

Title: Re: Automated fire-fighting robot
Post by: waltr on December 09, 2010, 09:02:54 AM

Try googling "fire-fighting robot" for a projects completed and what was used for flame detection. I got 281,000 hits on this search parameter.
This is one sensor used:
http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/tpa81tech.htm (http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/tpa81tech.htm)
in this robot:
http://coecsl.ece.illinois.edu/ge423/spring06/Fire/index.html (http://coecsl.ece.illinois.edu/ge423/spring06/Fire/index.html)

 

Title: Re: Automated fire-fighting robot
Post by: aruna1 on December 11, 2010, 05:17:56 AM

hi
this is fire fighter i made for a competition.
following is a video of testing basic robot.
we won 2nd place.
I used normal IR sensors for this
[youtube]A4RhDJooVaQ[/youtube]