TY - GEN
T1 - Building wall maintenance robot based on built-in guide rail
AU - Moon, Sung Min
AU - Hong, Daehie
AU - Kim, Sung Won
AU - Park, Sora
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - There have been built a large number of high-rise buildings equipped with facades (curtain-walls) in modern cities. These facades must be periodically maintained with manual procedures that are costly and risky. For this reason, the interest in developing and employing service robots for the building wall maintenance has been increased. Automation and robotics technologies allow safe and environmentally friendly facade cleaning, monitoring, and painting, which also reduce the cost of these tasks. These systems resolve the current safety problems associated with difficult and dangerous access, contributing to a zero injury and fatality in working performance. This paper deals with developing a Building Wall Maintenance Robot (BWMR) system based on a guide rail built in curtain-wall. The robot consists of both of horizontal and vertical units. The horizontal unit performs the maintenance works and is carried up and down by the vertical unit. The robot is designed to be fully automatic unlike other existing similar types of maintenance systems. Its feasibility has been verified through the experiments with down-sized robot and lab-scale building façade.
AB - There have been built a large number of high-rise buildings equipped with facades (curtain-walls) in modern cities. These facades must be periodically maintained with manual procedures that are costly and risky. For this reason, the interest in developing and employing service robots for the building wall maintenance has been increased. Automation and robotics technologies allow safe and environmentally friendly facade cleaning, monitoring, and painting, which also reduce the cost of these tasks. These systems resolve the current safety problems associated with difficult and dangerous access, contributing to a zero injury and fatality in working performance. This paper deals with developing a Building Wall Maintenance Robot (BWMR) system based on a guide rail built in curtain-wall. The robot consists of both of horizontal and vertical units. The horizontal unit performs the maintenance works and is carried up and down by the vertical unit. The robot is designed to be fully automatic unlike other existing similar types of maintenance systems. Its feasibility has been verified through the experiments with down-sized robot and lab-scale building façade.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209987
DO - 10.1109/ICIT.2012.6209987
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84863899766
SN - 9781467303422
T3 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2012, Proceedings
SP - 498
EP - 503
BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2012
Y2 - 19 March 2012 through 21 March 2012
ER -