PhoeniX: UAV-AGV Firefighting System
Summary
Structural-fire has caused 2,640 civilian death and material loss of 9.7 Billion USD in the US alone in the year 2011 as per the National Fire Protection Association. Time is of the essence when it comes to tackling most of the fire incidents. PhoeniX team proposes cutting edge, fully autonomous, heterogeneous, multi-agent robotics system to collaboratively locate and extinguish the fire without any human intervention in an unknown environment. Our system comprises UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and AGV (Automated Ground Vehicle) equipped with thermal/night vision camera which uses deep learning based methods for detecting and localizing fire. Our system also uses a stereo camera to create a real-time 3D map of the environment while simultaneously localizing the system in that map. The system uses state of the art algorithms to explore the environment while avoiding collisions. UAV have roughly 20 minutes of flight time, high payload capacity (2 Kg), and improved stability that can be attributed to its tilted hexacopter design. Both vehicles also carry extinguishing material which it can strategically deploy on the target fire to extinguish. UAV and AGV shares information of fire location, extinguishing material status to make smart decision resulting in a timely efficient response. PhoeniX firefighting system attempts to push the technological boundaries to create a net positive impact for humankind.Use Case:
