Humanoid robots rescuing humans and extinguishing fires for Cooperative Fire Security System using HARMS

Abstract

Fires cause billions of dollars in damage and thousands of deaths each year. Firefighting robots are being deployed around the world to reduce the loss of human life and the amount of property damage. High-rise buildings are used for both business and family homes. Buildings with dozens of floors present a great challenge to firefighters. Firefighter ladders cannot reach high enough to fight fires at the top of the building. Going into the building itself, in order to extinguish the blazing fire, is typically too dangerous and puts firefighters at risk. Monitoring, locating, and extinguishing the fire in the smallest amount of time is crucial to controlling fires in highrise buildings. This paper introduces humanoid robots capable of moving towards and extinguishing a fire and locating and rescuing any humans unlucky enough to be trapped in the inferno. This paper is one part of a Cooperative Fire Security System using HARMS (CFS <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> H) that detects, locates, and extinguishes a fire and rescues human beings using the Human, Agent, Robot, Machine, Sensor (HARMS) protocol.