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A wall-climbing robot for labelling scale of oil tank's volume

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2002

Zeliang Xu
Affiliation:
The Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200030 (P.R. of China).
Peisun Ma
Affiliation:
The Robotics Institute, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai 200030 (P.R. of China).

Abstract

A Wall-Climbing Robot (WCR) with magnetic tracks is presented in this paper. The robot is designed for labeling the scale of oil tank.5 The Wall-Climbing Robot (WCR) uses a permanent magnet sucker as its sucking mode, and a track as its moving mode. We designed an elastic brace mechanism, a load-scatter mechanism and parallelogram mechanism to improve the robot's adaptability on the steel wall surface. The control system utilizes two-level computer control systems, achieving control of the robot's moving track and processing data collected by the robot.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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