Cy-mag3D: a simple and miniature climbing robot with advance mobility in ferromagnetic environment

• Presented at: Climbing And Walking Robots: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Nagoya Institute fo Technology, Japan, 31 August, 2 September
• Published in: Emerging Trends in Mobile Robotics, p. 383-391. Fujimoto, Hideo ; Tokhi, Mohammad O. ; Mochiyama, Hiromi ; Virk, Gurvinder S. (eds.)
• Singapour: World Scientific, 2010

Cy-mag3D is a miniature climbing robot with advanced mobility and magnetic adhesion. It is very compact: a cylindrical shape with 28 mm of diameter and 62 mm of width. Its design is very simple: two wheels, hence two degrees of freedom, and an advanced magnetic circuit. Despite its simplicity, Cy-mag3D has an amazing mobility on ferromagnetic sheets. From an horizontal sheet, it can make transition to almost any intersecting sheet from 10° to 360° - we baptise the last one surface ip. It passes inner and outer straight corners in any almost inclination of the gravity. Cy-mag3D opens new possibilities to use mobile robots for industrial inspection with stringent size limitations, as found in generators. A patent is pending on this system.

Note: Best paper award "innovation award 2010 - for practical innovation in the field of robotics"

Keywords: robot ; mobile ; miniature ; wheel ; climbing ; magnetic adhesion ; mobots ; [MOBOTS]

Reference

• EPFL-CONF-149297

Record created on 2010-06-11, modified on 2012-04-11