Title
Self-Compliant Track-Type Wall-Climbing Robot for Variable Curvature Facade
Abstract
The paper presents a wall-climbing robot featuring self-compliance for variable curvature facades. The high payload and maneuverability make it highly potential in heavy-duty operation of industrial applications. The robot consists of two traction modules and one link module. Each traction module is equipped with magnetic adhesion and crawler traction submodules. The two traction modules are connected by the link module with 4 degrees of freedom (DoF) of passive compliance. Variable curvature facade self-compliance is achieved by the passive compliant link module, which results in the attitude change decoupling of the two traction modules. The attitude can be adjusted under the effect of magnetic adhesion force to comply with the curvature variations. High payloads are achieved by the large contact area between the crawler and the surface. Omni-directional high maneuverability is enabled by the speed difference between the motors of two traction modules. The robot can maneuver in any direction on the surface with a minimum radius of 1 m and carry 36 kg payload on vertical surfaces.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3068000
IEEE ACCESS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Robots, Mobile robots, Adhesives, Tracking, Magnetomechanical effects, Payloads, Licenses, Wall-climbing robot, adapting variable curvature, overcoming obstacles, high payloads, high maneuverability, magnetic adhesion
Journal
10
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2169-3536
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Wang138151.96
Xiaojun Zhang200.68
Minglu Zhang32715.35
Lingyu Sun4166.09
Manhong Li500.34