权益分类	功能权益	普通用户	{{item.name}}会员
{{category.name}}	{{benefitItem.name}}

I-Corps: Roadmap to Commercialization of City-Climber Technology

I-Corps：城市攀登者技术商业化路线图

基本信息

批准号：
1237223
负责人：
Jizhong Xiao
金额：
$ 5万
依托单位：
CUNY City College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-03-15 至 2013-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237223&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Corps Roadmap Commercialization City Climber

项目摘要

This Innovation Corps project proposes to test the commercial feasibility of a wall-climbing robot system based on the teams "City-Climber" technology for building façade inspection and glass wall cleaning applications. The current practice of manual inspection of building façade is time-consuming, expensive, and poses risk to human workers. The City-Climber technology provides a solution to meet a strong demand for automated inspection of building façades. In addition, the City-Climber robots can be modified to carry out tasks such as to clean glass walls and solar panels. Under prior funding, this team developed several wall-climbing robot prototypes, named City-Climber. Unlike traditional climbing robots that rely on magnetic devices and vacuum suction techniques and some recent novel climbing robots such as vortex climber and the robots using micro-spine inspired by the gecko foot, the City-Climber robots use an aerodynamic rotor package which achieves a balance between strong adhesion force and high mobility. If successfully commercialized, City-Climber robots have many potential applications such as: 1) inspection of building facades for cracks or other defects; 2) inspection of concrete structures such as power plant tower, dam, bridges, etc.; 3) cleaning of glass panels of high-rise buildings, 4) cleaning of solar panels; 5) inspection/spray painting/blasting of storage tanks, aircraft, ship hulls, billboards, etc.; 6) surveillance of tunnels or danger zones where ground access in not available.

该创新团队项目旨在测试基于团队“City-Climber”技术的爬墙机器人系统的商业可行性，用于建筑物立面检查和玻璃墙清洁应用。目前对建筑物立面进行人工检查的做法耗时、昂贵，并且对人类工人构成风险。City-Climber技术提供了一种解决方案，以满足建筑物立面自动检测的强烈需求。此外，City-Climber机器人还可以进行修改，以执行清洁玻璃墙和太阳能电池板等任务。在之前的资助下，该团队开发了几个爬墙机器人原型，名为City-Climber。与传统的依靠磁力装置和真空吸附技术的攀爬机器人以及最近出现的一些新型攀爬机器人（如涡流攀爬器和受壁虎脚启发使用微脊柱的机器人）不同，City-Climber机器人使用空气动力学转子组件，实现了强附着力和高机动性之间的平衡。如果成功商业化，City-Climber机器人具有许多潜在的应用，例如：1）检查建筑物立面的裂缝或其他缺陷; 2）检查混凝土结构，如发电厂塔，大坝，桥梁等; 3)高层建筑玻璃板的清洗，4）太阳能电池板的清洗; 5）储罐、飞机、船体、广告牌等的检查/喷漆/爆破; 6)在无法进入地面的情况下，对隧道或危险区域进行监视。