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

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

13-17 Oct 1998

Firstpage

249

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4465-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1998.724627

Filename

724627