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Wall-climbing drone

Country of Origin: South Korea
Reference Number: TOKR20171102002
Publication Date: 24 November 2017

Summary

The Korean  R&D  institute has developed Wall-climbing drone. 
An unmanned aerial vehicle that stably moves along walls under circumstances including regions inaccessible by people such as safety inspection of massive structures and high-rise buildings, access to a fire scene to complete a given mission.
The team is looking for license agreement, Commercial agreement with technical assistance

Description

The Korea Research Institute conducts various research activities including intelligent bio-system design, smart IT convergence system, and multi-scale energy system.



The innovative aspects of this technology are:

1. Flight/climbing posture change and wall surface movement control algorithm: stable posture change and wall movement control algorithm for changing a posture to induce dynamics and inverse dynamics such that it is attached to a wall when facing the wall during flight.

2. Design of flying and climbing robot and interpretation: design of a structure/mechanism for a stable flight of a robot and maximizing a grip force rate when climbing and interpretation thereof.

3. Three-dimensional autonomous driving navigation technology: autonomous navigation algorithm for autonomous driving using a sensor mounted on the robot, recognition of three-dimensional environment using altitude information, and calculation of a location of the robot.

 

A building inspection robot that uses a conventional vacuum lifter or independent infrastructure has a limited inspection range, and thus a movable inspection robot could not move depending on a state of a wall.  However, a wall-climbing drone is applicable to various external walls.



Compared with an unmanned infrastructure-based climbing robot that moves over wall surfaces using magnets, vacuum systems, and adhesive materials, it has higher stability. A flight function of the wall climbing drone can prevent it from falling out of the sky and trigger it to fly back to the take-off position even though unexpected external force causes it to fall. 



The team is looking for license agreement, Commercial agreement with technical assistance

Advantages and Innovations

- Applicable to various external walls

- Can fly to regional structures such as disaster areas, remote or rough regions inaccessible by people without restrictions, it has high mobility

-Flame resistant and life and ignition point detection functions are added so that it can be used as a fire inspection robot

Stage Of Development

Project already started

Requested partner

Type of partner sought

- SME, larger company, research institutions

Specific area of activity of partner

Automation, Robotics Control Systems

Tasks to be performed by the partner sought

- commercial agreement with technical assistance, license agreement