The Application of Mobile Robots for Building Safety Control

In this article we propose the application of service mobile robots for control of building safety parameters. Indoor mobile robots are becoming a reality and their availability and applications are expected to grow rapidly in the near future. Such robots are usually equipped with cameras and laser range finders, which could be used to detect hazardous situations in their operating environment, such as evacuation route obstructions, emergency sign occlusions or accumulation of dangerous materials. We demonstrate how these safety-related augmentations of a mobile robot system can be achieved with few additional resources and validate experimentally the concept using an indoor robot for emergency sign and evacuation route control.

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.