1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
DEVELOPMENT OF WALL-CLIMBING ROBOT
| Project/Area Number |
08045041
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | University-to-University Cooperative Research |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
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| Research Institution | MIYAZAKI UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHI Akira MIYAZAKI UNIV., ENG., PROF, 工学部, 教授 (70081263)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
XI Denguan HARBIN INST.TECH., ROB.INST., PROF., ロボット研究所, 教授
WANG Yan HARBIN INST.TECH., ROB.INST., PROF., ロボット研究所, 教授
MIYAGI Hiromori MIYAZAKI UNIV., ENG., ASSIST., 工学部, 助手 (90219741)
ZENG Tang MIYAZAKI UNIV., ENG., ASOC.PROF, 工学部, 助教授 (90227299)
ISHIZUKA Okihiko MIYAZAKI UNIV., ENG., PROF, 工学部, 教授 (90040980)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1998
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| Keywords | Wall-Climbing Robot / Biped Walking / Air-Turbine Actuator / Self-Powered Robot / Self-Controlled Robot / 凹凸壁面 |
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| Research Abstract |
A robot capable of moving on a vertical wall has been looked forward to for a long time. It could be used for rescue, wall inspection and fire-f igliting in high-rise buildings. Four Quite different types of wall-climbing robots have been developed in Miyazaki University, Faculty of Engineering, over the last 25 years. Harbin Institute of Technology, Robotics Institute has developed many types of the wall-climbing robots for more than 10 years.
A self-powered and self-controlled wall-climbing robot has been developed with cooperation of Harbin Institute of Technology, Robotics Institute, under the Grant-in-Aid for International Scientific Research. A biped walking robot with two suction cups has been developed, It was driven by low pressure air exhausted from the blower system to adhare the suction cups to the wall surface. This actuator has a good perfornarice, especially almost the same torque characteristic as DC-moter, and this is suitable characterislic for the most robot actuator. A new robot model with these actuators at alt joints and/or pivots has been constructed and tested in Miyazaki University, It was shown clearly that a self-powered and self-controlled biped walking wall-climbing robot could be developed by using these actuators satisfactorily, and also this cooperation program could be closed with a fruitful result.
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