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http://dx.doi.org/10.9726/kspse.2017.21.3.074

Development of the Underwater Cleaning Robot Platform for a Higher Efficiency  

Suh, Jin-Ho (Field Robotics R&D Division, Korea Institute of Robotics and Convergence(KIRO))
Lee, Jung-Woo (Field Robotics R&D Division, KIRO)
Kim, Jong-Geol (Field Robotics R&D Division, KIRO)
Choi, Young-Ho (Field Robotics R&D Division, KIRO)
Choi, Il-Seop (POSCO Technical Research Laboratories)
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Journal of Power System Engineering / v.21, no.3, 2017 , pp. 74-84 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Underwater cleaning robot; Human machine interface(HMI); Gear speed reducer; Pumping and screw mechanism;
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