Effective Pneumatic Scheme and Control Strategy of a Climbing Robot for Class Wall Cleaning on High-rise Buildings

A new kind of pneumatic climbing robot is presented to meet the requirements of glass-wall cleaning for high-rise buildings, which is totally actuated by pneumatic cylinders and attached to the glass wall with vacuum suckers. Using the pneumatic actuators the climbing robot can be made lightweight a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Houxiang Zhang, Jianwei Zhang, Guanghua Zong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2006-06-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5772/5738