Inspection of large tile walls for high-rise buildings based on a mechatronic mobile system

Author

Tso, S.K. ; Fan, K.L. ; Fung, Y.H. ; Han, L. ; Tang, D.W. ; Liu, K.P. ; Tong, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of MEEM, Hong Kong City Univ., Hong Kong, China

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-24 July 2003

Firstpage

669

Abstract

A purpose-built wall climbing system has been constructed for carrying out inspection or cleaning tasks at high-rise buildings. The system is developed not only for scanning external wall surfaces of public rental housing estates to detect defects, in particular debonded tiles, using non-destructive testing (NDT) tools but also for supporting cleaning and other services. The robotic system is able to move against the wall surfaces with a special mechanism to keep the robot in safe and effective operation. The mechatronic design and implementation of the inspection system are reported in particular in this paper.

Keywords

inspection; mechatronics; mobile robots; nondestructive testing; high-rise buildings inspection; mechatronic mobile system; nondestructive testing tools; robotic system; tile walls inspection; wall climbing system; Bonding; Buildings; Cleaning; Concrete; Detectors; Inspection; Mechatronics; Robotics and automation; Robots; Tiles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2003. AIM 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE/ASME International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7759-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIM.2003.1225174

Filename

1225174