Our robots are a self-automated firefighting system.
We have a fleet consisted of two robots: a “seeker” and a “tanker.”
The first robot goes into a maze that symbolizes an office building.
The robot moves along in the maze seeking out the “fire” recording the path it takes.
The purpose of the seeker robot is to locate and evaluate the extent of the fire.
This robot determines what means are necessary to put out the fire.
The seeker robot is also a less expensive robot unequipped with fire-fighting equipment
so in the case the robot is destroyed the expensive high-tech fire fighting equipment is not
lost.
The “seeker” then finds a path out of the maze and after leaving the building the seeker
bot sends “talks” to the tanker via radio frequency waves.
The seeker bot tells the tanker bot the path the tanker needs to take in order to find the fire.
Once the tanker receives its instructions, it enters the maze and follows the path it
received from the seeker bot. The tanker finds the fire and proceeds to eradicate the fire.
After the fire is extinguished, the tanker bot exits the maze with the task had been completed.
Our robots are both run by handyboards with a variety of sensors, and motors.
The bots use infrared distance sensors to follow the walls of the maze. Each bot has three IR
distance sensors mounted on them: one in the front, one on the right and the last on the left.
Both bots have a light sensor mounted on the front in order to find the fire.
Two LEGO rotation sensors are utilized in order to determine the number of rotations each wheel
has to make to make a varied degree of turns. The seeker bot utilizes a Radio Frequency
transmitter to send messages to the Radio Frequency receiver mounted on the tanker.
For mobilization, the bots use two LEGO motors to drive the two wheels.
The tanker bot has a third motor in order to drive a fan that will blow out the fire.
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