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Developing a Climbing Maintenance Robot for Tower and Rotor Blade Service of Wind Turbines

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Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control (RAAD 2016)

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Today, more than 275.000 wind turbines generate over 400 GW electrical power worldwide. So the demand for maintenance constantly raises. Since September 2014 the University of Applied Sciences Aachen and partners develop SMART (Scanning, Monitoring, Analyzing, Repair and Transportation), a maintenance platform for wind turbines. The research project is funded by the German federal ministry of economic affairs (BMWi), to support the upcoming industrial needs. While the reliability of the mechanical parts, like main bearing, generator, gears and main shaft increased during the recent years, the maintenance and improvement of rotor blades should be improved. A weatherproof cabin for rotor blade maintenance can extend the annual maintenance period from eight to twelve months, a major goal of the SMART development. In addition, a climbing mechanism for conical shaped, thin and slippery surfaces is generated and tested. SMART successfully completed the proof-of-concept milestone by demonstrating climbing in December 2015.

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  1. Institute for Mobile Autonomous Systems and Cognitive Robotics (MASKOR), University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Josef Schleupen, Heiko Engemann & Stephan Kallweit

  2. Faculty for Aerospace Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Mohsen Bagheri & Peter Dahmann

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  1. Robotics Laboratory, Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia

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  2. Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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Schleupen, J., Engemann, H., Bagheri, M., Kallweit, S., Dahmann, P. (2017). Developing a Climbing Maintenance Robot for Tower and Rotor Blade Service of Wind Turbines. In: Rodić, A., Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. RAAD 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 540. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49058-8_34

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