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In order to use a cable-driven parallel robot to inspect an existing surface, a straightforward solution consists in fixing the robot components on this surface. In most cases, however, there are conditions that limit these fixations, for example structural reasons since the frame of the surface has probably not been specifically calculated to withstand the forces generated by the parallel cable-driven robot. In the particular case of inspection of the façade of a building, civil engineering specifications apply, which may drastically reduce the engineering possibilities from the point of view of the parallel cable-driven robot designers. This paper introduces a detailed example of implementation of a parallel cable-driven robot on the Media-TIC building located in Barcelona in Spain. In this highly technological building, the main façade parallel cable-driven robot in intended to work as a sensor for monitoring the environment, but also as an interface between the building and its occupiers. The various constraints—due to normative, structural and aesthetic reasons—that were tackled are described in the paper, along with the elected detailed design of the robot that complies with these constraints.
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The authors would like to thank El Consorci and the 22@ Office of the City of Barcelona, as well as the team of Cloud9 and in particular Enric Ruiz-Geli, the architect of the building, for allowing us to consider this application on the Media-TIC building and their participation to its design. The contribution of the company B&R to the project with the design of the system control is also greatly acknowledged.
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Izard, JB., Gouttefarde, M., Baradat, C., Culla, D., Sallé, D. (2013). Integration of a Parallel Cable-Driven Robot on an Existing Building Façade. In: Bruckmann, T., Pott, A. (eds) Cable-Driven Parallel Robots. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31988-4_10
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