Micro-aerial vehicle type wall-climbing robot mechanism for structural health monitoring

Jae-Uk Shin; Donghoon Kim; Jong-Heon Kim; Hyun Myung

doi:10.1117/12.2010338

19 April 2013 Micro-aerial vehicle type wall-climbing robot mechanism for structural health monitoring

Jae-Uk Shin, Donghoon Kim, Jong-Heon Kim, Hyun Myung

Proceedings Volume 8692, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2013; 86921B (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010338
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Currently, the maintenance or inspection of large structures is labor-intensive, so it has a problem of the large cost due to the staffing professionals and the risk for hard to reach areas. To solve the problem, the needs of wall-climbing robot are emerged. Infra-based wall-climbing robots to maintain an outer wall of building have high payload and safety. However, the infrastructure for the robot must be equipped on the target structure and the infrastructure isn’t preferred by the architects since it can injure the exterior of the structure. These are the reasons of why the infra-based wall-climbing robot is avoided. In case of the non-infra-based wall-climbing robot, it is researched to overcome the aforementioned problems. However, most of the technologies are in the laboratory level since the payload, safety and maneuverability are not satisfactory. For this reason, aerial vehicle type wall-climbing robot is researched. It is a flying possible wallclimbing robot based on a quadrotor. It is a famous aerial vehicle robot using four rotors to make a thrust for flying. This wall-climbing robot can stick to a vertical wall using the thrust. After sticking to the wall, it can move with four wheels installed on the robot. As a result, it has high maneuverability and safety since it can restore the position to the wall even if it is detached from the wall by unexpected disturbance while climbing the wall. The feasibility of the main concept was verified through simulations and experiments using a prototype.

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Jae-Uk Shin, Donghoon Kim, Jong-Heon Kim, and Hyun Myung "Micro-aerial vehicle type wall-climbing robot mechanism for structural health monitoring", Proc. SPIE 8692, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2013, 86921B (19 April 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010338

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