Journal
ROBOTICS
Volume 5, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/robotics5030014
Keywords
wall climbing robot; facade cleaning robot; nested reconfigurable design principle
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- SUTD-JTC Industrial Infrastructure Innovation Center [IPJTCT 31501]
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In recent decades, skyscrapers, as represented by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, have been built due to the improvements of construction technologies. Even in such newfangled skyscrapers, the facades are generally cleaned by humans. Wall climbing robots, which are capable of climbing up vertical surfaces, ceilings and roofs, are expected to replace the manual workforce in facade cleaning works, which is both hazardous and laborious work. Such tasks require these robotic platforms to possess high levels of adaptability and flexibility. This paper presents a detailed review of wall climbing robots categorizing them into six distinct classes based on the adhesive mechanism that they use. This paper concludes by expanding beyond adhesive mechanisms by discussing a set of desirable design attributes of an ideal glass facade cleaning robot towards facilitating targeted future research with clear technical goals and well-defined design trade-off boundaries.
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