Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
In order to inspect social infrastructures such as bridge or tunnel, the wall-climbing robots have been developed based on Universal Vacuum Gripper, in short UVG. UVG adhere to uneven surface by the deformable rip part. The robots with UVG achieved the uneven wall climbing and move along ceiling in previous works. However, the inspection tools, vacuum pomp or battery were not equipped on the robot itself. In this paper, we proposed a novel vacuum gripper combined with inspection tool and evaluate the performance of the gripper. We also developed the inspection robot with the proposed gripper for the inspection.
