Design and Control Aspects of a Climbing Robot with Vacuum Cups Attachment System

Abstract

The paper presents some design and control aspects of an autonomous mobile robot, which moves on horizontal and vertical surfaces using an electro-pneumatically vacuum cups attachment system. The original robot construction, developed as a cleaning robot, includes two triangular platforms that provide a light weight. The system modelling and simulation were performed by means of SolidWorks-Cosmos Motion software package. The control is obtained with the motion data acquisition board 7344 from National Instruments and LabView programming support.