Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 30, 2017 - December 01, 2017
This paper proposes a bridge inspection robot capable of traveling on inner right-angle paths. Newly developed robot can move with two motor driven wheels that consist of iron and neodymium magnets and form a magnetic circuit during adsorbing to a steel plate and generates strong magnetic force. With this strong magnetic force, it becomes possible to mount heavy object such as an ultrasonic sensor. However, this robot need a pushing mechanism to cancel a strong magnetic force of the running steel surface. Using the pushing mechanism, the robot achieves traveling on any inner right-angle paths. In this study, experiments have been conducted to check the performance of the robot. It have been found that the robot has sufficient running and carrying ability to carry various sensors and achieve traveling the inner right-angle path by the pushing mechanism.
