Semi-Autonomous Robot for Exploration, Mapping and Air Quality Monitoring

Abstract

Industrial buildings are sometimes prone to gas leakages, such as volatile compounds and other harmful gases, which could cause major respiratory illnesses for anyone who would breathe them, and potential ignition risk, which could cause major financial loss. Means of remote detecting of such leaks play an immense role regarding work and environment safety.The present work proposes a way of monitoring ambient parameters in high-risk environments, using a keyboard controlled moving robot, with a moving autonomy of 25 minutes, capable of clearing obstacles of 3cm height. It features temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, luminosity, CO2, CO, NH4, H2, Butane, Propane and LPG sensors. The data is being monitored in real time using a Wi-Fi transmission, with the possibility of setting alarms when the environment parameters are exceeded.