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Mobile WebSiteIn recent years, news of firefighters’ casualties in fire accidents has continued. According to the Fire and Rescue Bureau of the Emergency Management Department, there were 237,000 people in the whole country in 2018, and 1,407 people were killed and 798 people were injured. Compared with 2017, the number of dead people increased by 0.9%. People are deeply saddened. Question: Can you use a plane to sprinkle water or foam to extinguish fire? Can I use a fire robot to extinguish a fire?
Fire robots come into play
On the one hand, fire protection requires more detailed fire information, faster fire fighting and rescue speed. On the other hand, the National Emergency Management Department has not established a compulsory firefighting fire after the establishment of a fire control system. It requires professional firefighters to use high-precision fire-fighting equipment to fight fires. Need to pay attention to the safety of firefighters. In this context, fire fighting robots have gradually become one of the development directions of fire protection.
At present, robots have been widely used in the field of fire protection, which has played a huge role in improving the safety and accuracy of fire rescue. Not long ago, the Xiaoshan fire-fighting robot acted as a 'Iron Man' in a fire in a certain place, rushed into the fire, investigated the road, extinguished the fire, and cooperated with the firefighters to finally extinguish the fire.
Further promotion faces three major problems
Fire-fighting robots can not only replace firefighters to enter the scene of the fire to rescue the wounded, but also improve the fire-fighting and rescue capability and efficiency of the troops, which is of great significance to our personal safety and social progress. At present, China's fire-fighting robots have achieved certain results in research and development, but they are not very optimistic in terms of application.
The first is the complexity of maintenance. Because fire-fighting robots are a combination of high-tech, there are certain requirements for handling and maintenance personnel. Professionals require certain knowledge. Professional training should be held regularly, especially electronic components, or may be exposed to moisture, smoke and dust. Such influences require a certain maintenance knowledge base;
Moreover, the current fire fighting robots are not smart enough to completely replace humans. The development of fire fighting robots has gone through three stages: the first generation of fire control robots controlled by programs, the second generation of fire fighting robots with sensory functions, and the third generation of intelligent fire fighting robots. Due to the late start, China's mainstream fire fighting robots are still in the first generation;
However, even if the two major problems are overcome, the high cost will make many fire brigades deterred. The fire-fighting robot belongs to the collection of higher subject knowledge and advanced high-tech. It has a long development time, high development cost, and a small number of production, which makes the price generally expensive and cannot be equipped with a large number of fire-fighting units. At the same time, the economic development of various regions is not balanced, and the government's ability to allocate funds is limited, which is one of the important reasons why it cannot be equipped with a large number of firefighting units.
Conclusion: Fire-fighting robots combine many advanced technologies, which not only help to obtain all kinds of information in fire areas, but also help or even replace firefighters into dangerous areas for information acquisition, fire fighting, and rescue, effectively ensuring the safety of firefighters. However, in the future, in order to obtain a truly large-scale application, China's fire-fighting robots must first overcome the difficulties in technology: on the one hand, we must accelerate the mastery of the core technology and key components of the robot itself, and on the other hand, promote sensing and identification. Breakthroughs in assistive technologies such as automatic navigation planning and machine vision.
