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Firefighting Agents

Background:

Fire accidents can be brutal in many aspects as it doesn’t only affect properties but also human lives and the environment, not to mention the effects it leaves on firefighters’ health. Firefighters can contain and terminate fire but the amount of time needed will cost more damage than what they can afford therefore a little help will be welcomed so we suggest a firefighter multi-agent system to take over as much firefighters’ work as possible.

What is ALFA ?

ALFA is an intelligent firefighting robotic system which helps extinguish fires and aid other human firefighters to accomplish this task quickly and swiftly with minimal losses, damages and most importantly saving lives. ALFA is an Acronym of Air and Land Firefighting Agents, it features a flying robot that is the brains of the system, scouts the area, scans and maps the environment, communicates with other robots and allocates tasks. It also features a group of ground bound robots that act as the muscles of the system, they are responsible for extinguishing the fire and navigating about the environment.

Watch the following video to further grasp the concept of the system:

Objectives and Benefits:

The objective of creating such system is to lower as much as possible, in the near future, the human interference with handling fire accidents so that at some point the human interference won’t be even required anymore.
The benefits of this system may differ with different point of views but saving human lives will always be the core idea, after that we may point to the time saved, considering the fact that in fire accidents, less time means less damage and less victims and another firefighting system will help to shed more light on how savage fire accidents can be.

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