Aerodynamic analysis of City-Climber robots

Author

Saboori, Parisa ; Morris, William ; Xiao, Jizhong ; Sadegh, Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., City Univ. of New York, New York, NY

fYear

2007

fDate

15-18 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1855

Lastpage

1860

Abstract

A multi-disciplinary robotics team at the City College of New York has developed a new generation wall-climbing robot named as City-Climber, which can operate on both smooth and rough surfaces and carry relatively large payload. This paper presents the adhesion mechanism and aerodynamic analysis of City-Climber robots using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation tool. The simulation results not only match the experimental test but also provide the directions to improve the adhesion mechanism design.

Keywords

adhesion; aerodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; robot dynamics; CFD simulation tool; City-Climber robots; adhesion mechanism; aerodynamic analysis; computational fluid dynamics; multidisciplinary robotics team; wall-climbing robot; Adhesives; Aerodynamics; Cities and towns; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Payloads; Robots; Rough surfaces; Surface roughness; Wall-climbing robot; aerodynamic attraction; computational fluid dynamics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2007. ROBIO 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sanya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1761-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1758-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522449

Filename

4522449