Title :
A wall climbing robot with simple suckers
Author :
Okada, Nobuhiro ; Yamanaka, Kyohei ; Kondo, Eiji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Technol., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
A new type of wall climbing robot to clean window is proposed in this paper. The developed robot can climb the vertical pane by rotating a crawler that has general purpose suckers. The robot can climb more simply and safely than other methods because it uses a simple mechanism. As the result of the experiments, it is confirmed that the developed robot can move on the wall. This paper gives motivation of this development, the details of the system, the experimental result and conclusions.
Keywords :
mobile robots; path planning; hazard maintenance robot; wall climbing robot; window cleaning; Cleaning; Climbing robots; Crawlers; Glass; Large-scale systems; Mobile robots; Robotics and automation; Shape; Wheels; Windows; Hazard Maintenance Robot; Robotics; Wall Surface Mobile Robot Vehicle;
Conference_Titel :
ICCAS-SICE, 2009
Conference_Location :
Fukuoka
Print_ISBN :
978-4-907764-34-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-907764-33-3