Miscellaneous

The RMIT UAS Research team is currently collaborating with the MFB (Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board) on gas sensing onboard their multi-rotors.

This research was made possible, in part, through support from the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade.

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Firefighting Robot Project - "The Homebot"

Final Project for the Unified Robotics II course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This robot is fully capable to navigate in a maze, autonomously find its path and align itself to fire simulating candle and extinguish it using the portable fan.

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This project integrates infrared and RGB imagery to produce dense 3D environment models reconstructed form multiple views. The resulting 3D map contains both thermal and RGB information which can be used in robotic fire-fighting applications to identify victims and active fire areas.

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The Firecopter!! A custom-made Y-6 multi-rotor that's equipped with a fire extinguisher for fighting fires from the air!
More details here:
"Fire Fighting Drone"

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We take a look under the hood to see just how Peter pulled off this flying fire fighter!

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This video demonstrates the FAROS (Fireproof Aerial RObot System) for fire disaster.
The drone can climb the wall to pass through narrow and smoky area. It has a 2D-LiDAR sensor for self-localization. Its pose estimation result is visualized on V-REP simulator.
The drone also has fire-proof function as shown on the video. It can endure fire over 1,000 C.
This research was supported by KIDS (KAIST Institute for Disaster Studies).

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In emergencies, people may trust robots too much for their own safety, a new study suggests. In a mock building fire, test subjects followed instructions from an “Emergency Guide Robot” even after the machine had proven itself unreliable – and after some participants were told that robot had broken down.

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A Georgia Tech study gave people reasons not to trust a robot, then discovered they still do in high-stress situations.

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Have you ever thought about a firefighter drone?
The Seine-et-Marne firefighters crew proves us that the Bebop Drone can not only be used for leisure aerial video. It can also become a powerful professional tool to help them through their riskiest missions!

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Proactive Fire Tracking Demo
at the Contextual Robotics Institute’s 2016 robotics forum

Computer science professor Tajana Simunic Rosing
System Energy Efficiency Lab
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

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On Nov. 8, four autonomous vehicles collaborated for a joint firefighting and lifesaving demonstration: the K-MAX helicopter, the Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft (SARA), the Desert Hawk 3.1 fixed wing unmanned aircraft, and the Indago quadrotor. First, Indago located hot spots and directed the K-MAX to drop water on the fire. Then, the Desert Hawk 3.1 surveyed the site and worked with K-MAX and SARA to complete a search and rescue mission.

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I. G. Ramirez-Alpizar, M. Naveau, C. Benazeth, O.Stasse, J-P. Laumond, K. Harada and E. Yoshida, Motion Generation for Pulling a Fire Hose by a Humanoid Robot, IEEE Int. Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2016.

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A video looking at the thermal imaging drone when used for fire safety, search and rescue.

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Fire departments are turning to drones to help spot dangerous fire conditions from the sky and document the devastating aftermath once the fire has passed through.

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Artificial intelligence for forest fire surveillance drones
A conference of Audrey Guilloton, Expert Navigation drone

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To monitor and stop the spread of wildfires, University of Michigan engineers developed UAVs that could find, map and report fires. One day UAVs like this could work with disaster response units, firefighters and other emergency teams to provide real-time accurate information to reduce damage and save lives.

For their research, the University of Michigan graduate students won first place at a competition for using a swarm of UAVs to successfully map and report simulated wildfires.

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