Automated visual Fire Fighting Robot

Firefighting robot has been designed and implemented as a model from raw materials to the final product which will help the firefighting department members fighting fires in accident locations. Modifying a wireless camera to broadcasting an IR images to the fireman specialist who handle controlling the FFR to be converted to a thermal image by mathematical operations.The IR images also processing to obtain largest hot spots and calculating the centers of these spots to orientate the robot manipulater towards the center of fire automatically.The fire fight robot has two modes of wireless controlling operations, automated mode and manual mode. Driving the robot towards the fire location is manually, but controlling the hose position comes in two modes manually and automatically.

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Dr. Wael R. Abdulmajeed has obtained his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2009. He is the Head of Mechatronics Engineering Department in Al-Khawarizmi Engineering College at University of Baghdad. He is an editing committee member in Alkhawarizmi Engineering Journal and he is a member of international societies such as ASME & IEEE.