Fire environments are dangerous and constantly changing. The goal of this project was to design and build a robot to provide firefighters with additional information about a fire environment to help them make more informed decisions when fighting a fire. We have built a prototype robot that is compact and quick to deploy, with a heat, water, and impact-resistant chassis designed to function in unpredictable firegrounds. The remote-controlled robot returns a real-time video feed and a heat map of a designated area in a building.

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Creator

• Naras, Karina R.
• Barinelli, Eva Marie
• Verdeja, Yil Alberto
• Berman-Jolton, Jacob Louis
• MacNeal, Gavin Keith

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042419-233823

Advisor

• Pinciroli, Carlo
• Michalson, William R.
• Wodin-Schwartz, Sarah Jane

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-04-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary
• Robotics Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright