Design and Implementation of a Climbing Robot Limb for Clinging to RoughWalls

摘要

In recent years, the urgent need for robotics applications in various sensitive work areas and high buildings has led to a significant development in the design of robots intended for climbing rough surfaces. Where, attention became focused on the ideal clinging mechanism. In this paper, a gripper of the climbing robot has been designed to achieve clinging on rough walls. The objective of this design is to be lightweight with high performance of clinging, therefore, a robot gripper has been designed based on a model of a limb inspired by the hand and claws of a cat, in which the robot claws were implemented by fishing hooks. These hooks are arranged in an arc so that each hook can move independently on the wall’s surface to increase the force of clinging to the rough wall. SolidWorks platform has been used to design the clinging limb and implemented using a 3D printer. In addition, the proposed design has been validated by performing several simulations using the SolidWorks platform. Experimental work has conducted to test the proposed design, and the results proved the success of the design.