FIRE DETECTOR FOR FIRE-FIGHTING ROBOT TARGETING Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A62C37/40 G08B13/194 G08B17/12 

FIELD: fire safety.

SUBSTANCE: invention can be used to guide the fire-fighting robot by transferring the coordinates of the ignition source to the fire-fighting robot control system. The objective of the utility model is to develop a device that combines fire detector functions with the control function of the robotic fire extinguishing system, with the function of transmission of the exact coordinates and sizes of one and several ignition sources, and the transfer of the coordinates and sizes of areas with an emergency high temperature to the fire robots control system. The device contains software units for reception, processing and comparison of video and thermal information that allow analysis and comparison in the visible and infrared spectra simultaneously and to make a decision about the presence of ignition sources, calculation of their coordinates and dimensions relative to the video matrix with a resolution higher than thermal imaging; hardware feedback module, which allows to correct the detector operation algorithm (depending on the fire robot operation mode) and to control the fire monitor engines when targeting; a self-diagnostics software unit, a software unit for search and detection of people.

EFFECT: expanded device functionality during operation in the fire-fighting robots system, namely, primary detection of a fire and initiation of an automatic control system for a faster system response to the occurrence of fire, ensured possibility of transmission of the exact coordinates and dimensions of both one and several ignition sources in the fire-fighting robots control system to implement algorithms for extinguishing a number of ignition sources by the system simultaneously with an increase in the noise immunity of the detector to false triggering, as well as for transmission of coordinates and sizes of areas with an emergency high temperature for automatic and accurate irrigation of structures by fire monitors, provision of feedback to the fire-fighting robot control system for synchronization of fire-fighting robot and detector algorithm operation, as well as control of the fire monitor engine for more rapid monitor targeting to the ignition source, as well as a possibility of determination of the presence of people in the area of fire extinguishing agent supply.

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