Design of Mobile Manipulator for Fire Extinguisher Testing. Part I Key Specifications and Conceptual Design

TL;DR

This paper proposes key specifications and a conceptual design for a mobile manipulator aimed at automatically testing fire extinguisher quality, inspired by firefighting standards and automatic fire suppression systems.

Contribution

It introduces a novel design framework for a mobile manipulator to evaluate fire extinguisher effectiveness based on ISO standards.

Findings

Defined key specifications based on ISO standards

Proposed feasible mechanical design solutions

Lays groundwork for automated fire extinguisher testing

Abstract

All flames are extinguished as early as possible, or fire services have to deal with major conflagrations. This leads to the fact that the quality of fire extinguishers has become a very sensitive and important issue in firefighting. Inspired by the development of automatic fire fighting systems, this paper proposes key specifications based on the standard of fire extinguishers that is ISO 7165:2009 and ISO 11601:2008, and feasible solutions to design a mobile manipulator for automatically evaluating the quality or, more specifically, power of fire extinguishers. In addition, a part of the mechanical design is also discussed.