1A2-D07 Development of Street Tree Climbing Robot WOODY-2

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the development of a street tree climbing robot WOODY-2. Pruning a street tree is very dangerous because the workers work at height. Therefore, we are developing a street tree climbing robot which works at height instead of man. The WOODY-2 is constructed of two trunk grasp units and a serial link arm which connects the units. This robot is capable of climbing a tree like a measuring worm motion, and rotating around the trunk and moving between the trunk and the branch.