Development of Robotic Platform for Swarm Robots in Fire Detection Application

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In recent years, a team of simple robots, so-called swarm robots, can perform the same level of difficult tasks as a more complicated robot. Due to their abilities, they can be applied to many situations. Fire detection is one application that can be combined with swarm intelligence to increase efficiency and effectiveness. This paper presents a new swarm robotic platform for a fire detection task called FiFiBot that has been developed for low cost and high performance. The average cost per FiFiBot is USD 140. Compared with conventional designs, they are better in terms of computational speed, cost and the number of included sensors. Moreover, two FiFiBots were programmed to perform a leader-follower routine with fire detection, and were successfully tested. Hence, FiFiBots are feasible robotic platforms to be used for research and educational purposes for swarm systems.