DocumentCode :
2386659
Title :
Requirements of glass cleaning and development of climbing robot systems
Author :
Houxiang Zhang ; Jianwei Zhang ; Guanghua Zong
fYear :
2004
fDate :
26-31 Aug. 2004
Firstpage :
101
Lastpage :
106
Abstract :
Cleaning the outer walls of high-rise buildings is always dangerous and laborious work in mid-air. An alternative solution is to use walking-climbing robots which overcome the above-mentioned problems. Wall cleaning and maintenance of high-rise buildings is becoming one of the most appropriate fields for robotization due to its current low level of automation and lack of uniform building structure. In this paper, a family of sky clearner robots for this diffiuclt job which are totally actuated by pneumatic cylinders and sucked into the glass walls with vacuum suckers are presented. Firstly the basic functions for glass wall cleaning robot are summarized systemically. the individual robots´ mechanical constructions and unique aspects are introduted in details. In the end a summary of the main special features of the three kinds of cleaning robots are given.
Keywords :
Buildings; Cleaning; Climbing robots; Glass; Kinematics; Legged locomotion; Mobile robots; Propellers; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu, China
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8748-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICIMA.2004.1384170
Filename :
1384170
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