Abstract: Aimed at the low reliability and intelligence of navigation and control technology of current fire fighting robot, this paper proposes a novel control and navigation system for fire-fighting robot, what the operator needs to do is to set the starting and terminal point on digital map, then, the robot can revise the motion according to the surrounding environment by performing the mapping and localization, path-planning and path-following repeatedly. This research sets a solid basis for fire fighting robot to be able to execute tasks out of the sights of operator in the future.

Key words: navigation and control, mapping and localization, local path-planning, path-following