Robotic system for cleaning manholes (RSCM)

Author

Joshi, Gopal ; Rana, Animesh ; Venkateshwar, R.

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng., Vels Univ., Chennai, India

fYear

2011

fDate

19-20 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

104

Abstract

Aimed at tackling the disadvantages of conventional manhole. A new manhole cleaning robot system is designed to perform automated cleaning instead of manual; a characteristic of less safety, low-efficiency, long time and environmental pollution problems related to the operations. The robot system consists of robot, suction pump, hydraulic pump station, remote control center, windlass and biodegradable bags. The modular structures have been adopted in the robot, which makes it possible to assemble all subsystems in a single unit. This robotic system can reduce the complex mechanism for cleaning the manholes and even provide environmental friendly way of disposing the sludge or waste.

Keywords

hydraulic control equipment; service robots; telerobotics; waste handling; water pollution control; automated cleaning; biodegradable bags; complex mechanism; environmental friendly way; environmental pollution problem; hydraulic pump station; manhole cleaning robotic system design; modular structure; remote control center; suction pump; Cleaning; Plastics; Process control; Pumps; Robots; Vacuum systems; Automated; Easy disposal; Easy use; Eco-friendly; Safer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research and Development (SCOReD), 2011 IEEE Student Conference on

Conference_Location

Cyberjaya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0099-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCOReD.2011.6148716

Filename

6148716