Acta Mechanica Slovaca 2019, 23(3):6-9 | DOI: 10.21496/ams.2019.016

Chimney Cleaning and Inspection Robot

Peter Marcinko1, Ivan Virgala1, Ľubica Miková1, Erik Prada1, Tatiana Kelemenová1, Michal Kelemen1, Martin Varga1
1 Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice

The paper deals with robot, which locomotes inside chimney for cleaning and inspection purposes. Carbon particles are in sediments on inner chimney wall. Chimney has to be periodically cleaned and inspected because of fire risk. Paper introduces concept of service robot for this application. Tracked locomotion has been selected as principle of locomotion inside chimney.

Keywords: robot, chimney, locomotion, mechatronics.

Published: September 27, 2019  Show citation

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Marcinko, P., Virgala, I., Miková, Ľ., Prada, E., Kelemenová, T., Kelemen, M., & Varga, M. (2019). Chimney Cleaning and Inspection Robot. Acta Mechanica Slovaca, 23(3), 6-9. doi: 10.21496/ams.2019.016
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