Duty robotic woodlouse wait fire in the forest

"OLE! OLE-OLE-OLE! .. " It is strange to have shouted during the fire? No, not strange if the forest fire. However, the fire in the bush, where you can issue such cries, can not begin. Indeed, if such forests zapahnet fried or simply burnt, as if from the land there Orava steel monsters to a person terrible, but inside dobreyshih. And a moment usmirit flames.

Robots are increasingly similar to living beings. Why? Because animals and insects adapt to the world for many centuries, so it knows the ropes. A more or less intelligent robots were introduced only in the last century, they (or more precisely, their creators) and decided to emulate adult-to save many millions or even billions of years of progress.

Usually such simulation engineers use to make their machines to do some work. But researchers from the Institute of Industrial Design (Institut für Industriedesign) in the Graduate School Magdeburga- Shtendalya (Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal) proposed to make robots that will replicate nature not for the sake of a focus, but for the sake of their own salvation. And emulate these robots are not the most pleasant character-woodlouse.

However, it may be too shy and woodlouse - is not, because the purpose of these machines is to save forests good fire. Specifically, fire prevention.

These robots cited OLE - Offroad-Lösch-Einheit that the transfer of a mixture of German angliysko- can be translated as "Off tushitelny machine."

OLE is a robot that does not move on a pair of legs, not on the wheels, and even at kolesonogah. Indeed forests is a complex area that requires a complex movement. Therefore, it was decided to equip the robot once six feet, feet like an insect. And it is not natykalsya the obstacles to it pridelyvaetsya couple of metres behind bars for the road.

Numerous limbs need to OLE can move freely in the forest, and the patrol territory. He had only one concern : to learn, not on whether what where. "Uzret source of ignition could with the infrared sensors of strong heat sources.

If the source is in sight, "the Tushitelny machine" stremglav running to it and get reports CHP wireless to the focal point, Managing such robots.

Of course, if barely seen explosive fire extinguishing it is not very difficult. It uses OLE embedded in it pozharotushitelnuyu car vybrasyvayuschuyu water transverse mode is to reduce the amount of wearable with a liquid. However, what is the best agent fire is not yet known (can and dry water).

That draft Institute of Industrial Design began working in collaboration with the Institute of Industrial Automation and name Fraunhofer (Fraunhofer-Institut und für Fabrikbetrieb automatisierung-IFF) even in winter 2005-2006.

Addressing OLE prompted serious problem of forest fires every year in Europe alone burn on five million square kilometers of forest, bringing financial losses to 2.5 million euros, to say nothing of various environmental impacts, including mercury pollution.

So scientists and came to a rather banal conclusion that better prevent trouble than eliminate unpleasant and distressing results. This is not an altogether easy task. Regular surveys, say, using helicopters too expensive and ineffective. You can install sensors, which will be triggered quickly, but of course, no guarantee of a speedy arrival of fire brigade.

Here and there a simple solution-together in one machine and the detector, and fire truck.

OLE can fix location of fire at a distance of 50 metres to thousands, depending on the density of forests and weather.

However, it might be a good technique, but it has, in principle, may not have time to cope with the hotbed, to the middle of the flames. If suddenly with OLE is such causes, it is not so terrible : when you reach temperatures dangerous for electronic components, it is rapidly winding down in games, as do woodlouse-and draws in the leg.

His situation prevails in this heat really made of ceramic fibers and vyderzhivayuschy to 1300 degrees Celsius. Paul how stihnet fire, the robot can be deployed to patrol and go again - unless, of course, then left that patrol.

So far Offroad-Lösch-Einheit exists only in concept. And information from the laboratories of the institutions of the status of his physical manifestations, infiltrates scarce.

But when it comes, finally, to the mass production of these guards chaschob it will be very welcome news for the preservation of green areas will not worry. Sadly, but poor forest animals, which has to face these strashnovatymi mnogonogimi vagrants.