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H2020Staff exchange2017–2021

SMOOTH · SMart rObOTs for fire-figHting

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-03-01 → 2021-02-28
EU contribution
€513,000
Participants
8
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

SMart rObOTs for fire-figHting

• What is the problem/issue being addressed? In this project (A smart CPS based robot platform for fire-fighting), we aim to address the following issues: 1) There is no search and fire-fighting robot available for identifying the fire at the early stage; 2) There is no safe rescue robot available for rescuing the people on the fire ground; 3) There is no adaptable wheel and track available for entering the fire ground. Particularly, a completing innovative design of robot mechanisms, sensor network and actuators, overcoming the challenges of wireless network communication technology and setting up intelligent decision-making system. • Why is it important for society? Through the implementation of this project, the following social benefits will be achieved: 1) Enhancing automation and intelligence ability and education (training); 2) Providing the basic theory and lab demos; 3) Training the next generation of fire-fighters. What are the overall objectives? The purpose of this project is to develop an intelligent fire-fighting platform based on Cyber Physics Systems, which integrates intelligent fast mobile fire extinguishing robots, intelligent walking operation robots and intelligent wheeled-tracked compound rescue robots, and develop an intelligent decision-making system capable of real-time interaction, dynamic perception and visual remote control with the field command center, so as to realize the real-time operation of the robot and the field command center. Communication and perception interaction can improve the intelligence level of fire-fighting robots in both the Europe and China.

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Project objective

Over the years, changes in modern infrastructure have introduced new challenges to firefighting practices. Training and research programs have been developed to manage these challenges but there are still significant losses from fires each year. In 2013 alone, the fire departments in the USA responded to over 1.2 million fires which resulted in about 3,420 civilian fatalities, 15,925 injuries and property losses of about $12.4 billion dollars. In the UK, 192,600 fires responses, approximately 350 civilian fatalities, 10,300 injuries. The firefighting and rescue functions of the existing equipment and apparatus and their dexterity are limited, particularly in the harsh firefighting environments. The SMOOTH project aims to propose a novel robot-assisted decision making system in smart firefighting to perform searching and rescuing practice in the fire ground, and to facilitate the decision makings with higher efficiency. In the proposed system, a dexterous group of autonomous robots will be ingested, including an Octopus robot developed by SJTU with dexterous robotic upper body developed (with functions of high payload, forcible entry, excavation, obstacle avoidance and sweeping), a group of jumping robots invented by BU and YSU (with functions of obstacle avoidance) and a swarm of capsule systems invented by BU (with functions of precise positioning, narrow openings maneuveration and manipulation). A bunch of novel wearable and environmental sensors will be assembled and equipped on the robots and firefighter’s protection suits to facilitate the real-time machine-to-machine communications. A 3-D human-robot interactions infrastructure will be created to facilitate efficient interactions between human adaptive mechatronics and adaptive networked control. Based on these concepts, the consortium will investigate the needs and key technologies such as hybrid autonomous and miniaturized robotic modules, wireless sensor technologies, advanced decision support algorithms,

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY · POOLECoordinatorUnited Kingdom
  • CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES SAS · MEYLANFrance
  • INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES · BEIJINGChina
  • INSTITUTUL DE MECANICA SOLIDELOR · BucurestiRomania
  • ROBOTNIK AUTOMATION SL · PaternaSpain
  • SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY · SHANGHAIChina
  • STIMPEX SA · BucurestiRomania
  • YANSHAN UNIVERSITY · QINHUANGDAOChina

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union