Development Of Building-Facade Maintenance Robot with Docking Station Based on Vertical Climbing Mechanism

Moon, Sungmin; Hong, Dae Hie; Kim, Sung Won; Park, Sora

doi:10.22260/isarc2011/0223

“…The system which do mainly maintenance work is the horizontal moving system. Its moving mechanism called wheel mechanism 5,6 makes it move along the horizontal rail without separation. In the wheel mechanism, the encoders are attached to the motors, or directly to the wheels, in order to get information of location.…”

Section: Guide Railmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the wheel mechanism, the encoders are attached to the motors, or directly to the wheels, in order to get information of location. For smooth movement, anti-shock mechanism 5,6 is installed, and it is to prevent the horizontal moving system from destroyed by shock and vibration, which is generated by installation error of rail. Moreover, for moving smoothly in curved rail, there is the curve moving mechanism 5,6 .…”

Section: Guide Railmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For smooth movement, anti-shock mechanism 5,6 is installed, and it is to prevent the horizontal moving system from destroyed by shock and vibration, which is generated by installation error of rail. Moreover, for moving smoothly in curved rail, there is the curve moving mechanism 5,6 . The vertical moving system uses inch-worm mechanism and hook mechanism for vertical climbing 6 .…”

Section: Guide Railmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Development of Cleaning System Installed in Horizontal Moving System for Maintenance of High-Rise Building

Huh¹,

Moon²,

Kim³

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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Purpose Nowadays, in modern cities many high-rise buildings are equipped with curtain-walls. Before the advent of robot technology, building maintenance experts maintained curtain-walls periodically. However, their work is very dangerous and there are many falls and accidents in the workplace. Because of this danger, the manual maintenance process is very expensive. In order to solve this problem, our paper suggests a full-automatic cleaning system which is installed as a built-in guide rail robot system. Method The built-in guide rail robot system consists of two moving system: a vertical and a horizontal moving system. Especially important is the horizontal moving cleaning system. There are three units in the cleaning system: a roll-brushing unit, an injection unit, and a squeezing unit. These units work in a particular order. Having two moving systems extend the cleaning area, and the vertical moving system is equipped to charge necessary supply material. Results & Discussion The design suggested in this paper is suitable for high-rise building maintenance. Not only is this robot is automatically workable, but it also saves maintain building time. Therefore, using this robot, building maintenance is safer and more efficient than using manual labor.

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“…In order to solve this problem, many engineers have developed the building maintenance robots to take the place of human labor. Those robots can be classified into two categories based on direction of maintenance: rooftop gantry type 1,2,3 , and built-in guide rail type 4,5,6 . The first robot maintains façade with moving vertically by hanging on the rooftop gantry.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of cleaning system installed in horizontal moving system for maintenance of high-rise building

Huh¹,

Moon²,

Kim³

et al. 2012

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Purpose Nowadays, in modern cities many high-rise buildings are equipped with curtain-walls. Before the advent of robot technology, building maintenance experts maintained curtain-walls periodically. However, their work is very dangerous and there are many falls and accidents in the workplace. Because of this danger, the manual maintenance process is very expensive. In order to solve this problem, our paper suggests a full-automatic cleaning system which is installed as a built-in guide rail robot system. Method The built-in guide rail robot system consists of two moving system: a vertical and a horizontal moving system. Especially important is the horizontal moving cleaning system. There are three units in the cleaning system: a roll-brushing unit, an injection unit, and a squeezing unit. These units work in a particular order. Having two moving systems extend the cleaning area, and the vertical moving system is equipped to charge necessary supply material. Results & Discussion The design suggested in this paper is suitable for high-rise building maintenance. Not only is this robot is automatically workable, but it also saves maintain building time. Therefore, using this robot, building maintenance is safer and more efficient than using manual labor.

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