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Design of Wall Climbing Robot with Non-magnetic Surface

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Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2019)

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With the rapid development of economy, the energy consumption in the world is accelerating, and the number of large pressure vessels which are convenient for storing fuels is increasing. Large pressure vessels generally use a welding process to close the wall surface, and the weld seam needs to be inspected regularly to ensure the safe operation of the pressure vessels. At present, the main detection of welds is manual, and it is expected that magnetic pressure vessel can be detected by magnetic adsorption robots. In order to detect large non-magnetic pressure vessels, we conducted a study on a pneumatic adsorption wall climbing robot. We first develop a basic research plan for the mechanical design of wall climbing robot and then build a mathematical model based on the actual situation of the wall climbing robot which is working on the surface of pressure vessels. By CFD simulation technology, the simulation and experiment results of the aerodynamics of the impeller rotation from inside of wall climbing robot can be envisioned and verified.

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  1. Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130033, China

    Liang Zhao, Chunlong Liu, Deyong Zhu & Chuang Liu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China

    Liang Zhao, Deyong Zhu & Chuang Liu

  3. Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    Shaoyun Zhou

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  2. Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang, China

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  3. Shenyang Institute of Automation, Shenyang, China

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Zhao, L., Liu, C., Zhou, S., Zhu, D., Liu, C. (2019). Design of Wall Climbing Robot with Non-magnetic Surface. In: Yu, H., Liu, J., Liu, L., Ju, Z., Liu, Y., Zhou, D. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11745. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27529-7_16

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