| authors |
Bach, Fr.-W., Rachkov, M., Seevers, J. and Hahn, M. |
| year |
1995 |
| title |
High tractive power wall-climbing robot |
| source |
Automation in Construction 4 (3) (1995) pp. 213-224 |
| summary |
There are a lot of tasks in building construction and maintenance which demand either the carriage of heavy technological equipment along vertical and sloping surfaces and/or provision for force technological operations on such surfaces For example, surface cleaning or grinding by automatic equipment, the mounting of expansion bolts and anchors by drilling or by driving in. Additionally surface inspection by heavy measuring devices and the painting of big construction areas are difficult and expensive to perform manually. It is therefore expedient to apply climbing robots to automate these tractive power operations. The climbing robot was developed for such purposes. The design of the robot with increased load capacity and improved gripper system was carefully considered. The robot has a video camera for orientation and for the monitoring of processes. A sensor-based computer control system is used. This paper contains a brief overview of the technical parameters and experimental characteristics of the robot's transport module, control system with video camera unit, and the different schemes of the robot's application. |
| keywords |
Climbing robot; Two-staged gripper system Monitoring Sensor-based computer control system; Automatic Technological equipment |
| series |
journal paper |
| more |
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/autcon |
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