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Development of the Underwater Cleaning Robot Platform for a Higher Efficiency

고효율 수중청소로봇 플랫폼 기술 개발

  • 서진호 (한국로봇융합연구원 필드로봇연구본부) ;
  • 이정우 (한국로봇융합연구원 필드로봇연구본부) ;
  • 김종걸 (한국로봇융합연구원 필드로봇연구본부) ;
  • 최영호 (한국로봇융합연구원 필드로봇연구본부) ;
  • 최일섭 (포스코 기술연구원)
  • Received : 2017.03.08
  • Accepted : 2017.04.17
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

This paper presents the development of the underwater cleaning robot platform for a higher efficiency in manufacturing industry. Human operators directly go into the cistern and clean sludge after drainage of the water so far. It is sometimes dangerous because of the harmful chemical materials from the product making process. In addition, it takes long time for water drainage and supplying it back. However, the robot cleaning operation does not need to drain water so that it could be applied to the sludge cleaning work at any time without the plant pause. Moreover, it can prevent the safety accidents because human operators are not necessary to enter directly the sludge cisterns. This paper shows the performance of cleaning work that can be applied in the industrial field through the design and development of underwater cleaning robot platform. And these results demonstrate that the developed underwater cleaning robot has great possibilities to clean other industrial water cisterns.

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