Design and fabrication of wheeled pole climbing robot with high payload capacity

Abstract

Nowadays Climbing robots are widely used in various applications in industrial and hazardous environment for inspection of vertical and inclined poles wiring on high voltage power transmission tower. Pole climbing for fixing any issues related to power transmission lines, bridge repair and maintenance, climbing trees, climbing lamp posts etc. In this paper aims in designing of Pole Climbing Robot (PCR).These types of climbing robots can be used for inspection as well. In this robot pair the smart phone with Bluetooth module connected to embedded system. Then using the graphical interface in android application able to give instructions to move up or down or stop moving performance. These commands are received by Bluetooth module and give corresponding instructions to arduino of the embedded system board, which, depending on the code in it drives the motor driver accordingly. The benefits of this work are to save human lives as numbers of people are died from electrical injuries almost every year. In Pole Climbing Robot (PCR) previous researches on climbing robots all around the world focused mostly on Wall Climbing Robots (WCRs) and only a few research works were performed on Pole climbing Robot(PCR's).