Paper Info
Title
Tracked-wheel crawler robot for vertically aligned mooring chain climbing design, simulation and validation of a climbing robot for mooring chains
Abstract
Only a few attempts have been made to investigate the possibilities of developing chain climbing robot due to the complexity of the structure and physical nature of chain links. Mooring chains are subjected to large tidal waves, harsh environmental conditions and storms on a daily basis. Therefore, periodic inspection of the integrity of chain links is important. Work reported in this paper investigates the possibilities of mooring chain climbing by using tracked wheel locomotion. The permanent magnet adhesion, tracked wheel crawler robot developed for this purpose can climb on mooring chains both in air and underwater with a variable speed according to the inspection requirements (maximum speed of 42cm/minute). It is able to handle an external downward force of 50N during the climbing motion. Numerical modelling based analysis of a magnet adhesion module and the strength of the robot structure is validated with prototyping and testing of the concept.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICIINFS.2017.8300423
2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Mooring chain inspection,Chain Climbing Robot,Crawler Robot,Magnetic adhesion crawler
Conference
978-1-5386-1677-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mahesh Dissanayake101.35
Tariq Pervez Sattar2706.38
Omar Faruq Howlader300.34
Ivan Pinson401.01
t h gan5136.98