A series of pneumatic glass-wall cleaning robots for high-rise buildings

Industrial Robot

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-160

  Zhang, Houxiang ^a   Zhang, Jianwei ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Liu, Rong ^b   Zong, Guanghua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Buildings; Cleaning; Motion; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; GLASS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PNEUMATIC CONTROL;

CLEANING ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; CLIMBING ROBOTS; GLASS WALL CLEANING; HIGH RISE BUILDINGS;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33947125523     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910710727504     Document Type: Article

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