Development and application of wall-climbing robots

Author

Yan, Wang ; Shuliang, Liu ; Dianguo, Xu ; Yanzheng, Zhao ; Hao, Shao ; Xueshan, Gao

Author_Institution

Robot Res. Inst., Harbin Inst. of Technol., China

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1207

Abstract

In this paper we introduce wall-climbing robots of two different absorption schemes: one with single suction cup and the other with permanent magnetic crawlers. The former adopts an omnidirectional vehicle and can perform remote-control inspection of nuclear storage tanks. Moreover, it is further developed for cleaning both the ceramic tile and glass surfaces of high-rise buildings. The latter consists of two types of robots: one is for maintenance automation of storage tanks in petrochemical enterprises, which can perform operations of sand-blasting, spray-painting and inspection; and the other is for monitoring the boiler wall water tubing

Keywords

inspection; maintenance engineering; mobile robots; spray coatings; telerobotics; building cleaning; inspection; maintenance; monitoring; nuclear storage tanks; permanent magnetic crawlers; petrochemical industry; remote-control; sand-blasting; spray-painting; suction cup; wall-climbing robots; Absorption; Ceramics; Cleaning; Crawlers; Inspection; Robotics and automation; Robots; Storage automation; Vehicles; Water storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5180-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1999.772526

Filename

772526