EVOLUTION OF AUTONOMOUS MOBILE FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT

Evolution and mobile autonomous

Modelling Temperature Evolution in Equipment Engulfed in a Pool-fire

A method is presented to calculate the incident radiant heat flux and the temperatures reached on any point of a tank surface when this tank is engulfed in a pool-fire during the fire transitory state (developing phase). 1he method used to calculate the radiant heat flux on the cylinder is based on a three-dimensional formulation and uses the definition of a surface to establish the flame conto...

SIL Rating Fire Protection Equipment

SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rating is for fly by wire aircraft and weapons systems and track circuited train signalling systems while SIL 2 is typical of certain Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Fire control panels have not been SIL rated to date ev...

Evolution of Herding Behavior of Multiple Autonomous Mobile Robots

Byoung-Tak Zhang Dept. of Computer Engineering Seoul National University Seoul 151-7 42, Korea [email protected] We study the evolution of herding behavior of multiple autonomous mobile robotic agents. Agents are cloned to form a homogeneous team. Cooperation strategies for a team of the robots are represented in a neural network. An evolutionary algorithm is used to evolve the neural netw...

Evolution of spiking neural circuits in autonomous mobile robots

We describe evolution of spiking neural architectures to control navigation of autonomous mobile robots. Experimental results with simple fitness functions indicate that evolution can rapidly generate spiking circuits capable of navigating in textured environments with simple genetic representations that encode only the presence or absence of synaptic connections. Building on those results, we ...