Title :
Development of a self-contained wall climbing robot with scanning type suction cups
Author :
Yano, Tomoaki ; Numao, Shinji ; Kitamura, Yukio
Author_Institution :
Mech. Eng. Lab., MITI, Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
A self-contained wall climbing robot with scanning-type suction cups is developed and tested. The robot is not connected to the equipment on the ground physically. It has two vacuum pumps, a power supply battery, a control system, and a wireless communication system on it. A walk for 30 minutes can be done with one charge of the battery. The workspace of the robot covers 10 meters from the remote control antenna. The minimum walking speed of the robot is 30 cm/min. We hope that the developed robot will will used for the inspection of walls of tall buildings
Keywords :
legged locomotion; telerobotics; 0.5 cm/s; 10 m; 30 min; control system; power supply battery; remote control antenna; scanning type suction cups; self-contained wall climbing robot; tall buildings; vacuum pumps; wall inspection; wireless communication system; Automatic testing; Batteries; Climbing robots; Communication system control; Control systems; Inspection; Legged locomotion; Power supplies; Vacuum systems; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4465-0
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1998.724627
