Gas Detection and Mapping Using an Autonomous Mobile Robot

The field of robotics has apparently appeared to replace jobs that humans usually dislike doing, jobs that have low tolerances for faults or that are dangerous for humans. For these reasons, mobile robots have been used in many applications, such as gas detection, security patrolling, and search and rescue. Nowadays, many gases that are dangerous for humans may pollute the environment. Gases can leak from many causes, such as mining disasters, war, and manufacturing disasters. In this paper, we introduce a new mobile robotics system, which uses a mobile robot for navigation within hazardous environments to detect, localize, and create concentration maps of various gases that are deemed hazardous in household and industrial environments. The generated gas maps can be used for many purposes; for example, they might be used by humans to avoid the areas with detected gas or by a rescue team during rescue operations.