Maintenance robot for wind power blade （风力发电叶片维修机器人）.pdfVIP

Maintenance robot for wind power blade cleaning Minseok Jeon 1, Byunggon Kim 1, Sora Park 1, and Daehie Hong 2* 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea 2 School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea *Corresponding author (dhhong@korea.ac.kr) Purpose Recently, wind power systems have increased in size as a function of economics of scale and they have become large offshore complexes. Approaching a wind power blade is very hard because not only are the blades set up at the sea but also the winds are very high. Nowadays wind power blades are cleaned by people using ropes and a small water jet. The operation is dangerous and inefficient. Therefore, we need a robot for blade maintenance. Method In order to keep the wind power system reliably in operation, both the moving robot mechanism on the blade’s curved surface and the bladeclean-up mechanism for maintenance repair are needed. The moving robot mechanism on the blade’s curved surface looks like INCHWorm, and it can move vertically on the blade. The vertical moving robot is loaded with a clean-up robotic mechanism. The blade clean-up mechanism on the vertical moving robot can clean the blade surface using a water jet, and brush. The water jet sprinkles water on the blade and cleans the surfaces . The brush moves horizontally and cleans the blade curve surface. Results Discussion This paper suggests the blade-clean-up mechanism robot for maintenance of wind power blades. Not only is this robot automatically workable for blade cleaning, but it also saves time. Keywords: maintenance, cleaning, robot, rotor blade, wind power system INTRODUCTION sonic, and high resolution camera, then analyzes its Due to the declining reserve of the oil and accelerating status by digits coll