Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Detroit, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5180-0
DOI :
10.1109/ROBOT.1999.772526
