A concept selection method for designing climbing robots

Guo, Jianglong; Justham, Laura; Jackson, Michael; Parkin, Robert M.

A concept selection method for designing climbing robots

journal contribution

posted on 2015-11-23, 12:21 authored by Jianglong Guo, Laura JusthamLaura Justham, Michael Jackson, Robert M. Parkin

This paper presents a concept selection methodology, inspired by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) model and Pugh's weighted matrix method, for designing climbing robots conceptually based on an up-to-date literature review. The proposed method is illustrated with a case study of ongoing research, the investigation of an adaptable and energetically autonomous climbing robot, in Loughborough University.

Funding

The authors acknowledge support from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation, in undertaking this research work under grant reference number EP/IO33467/1.

History

School

Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Key Engineering Materials

Volume

649

Pages

22 - 29

Citation

GUO, J. ...et al., 2015. A concept selection method for designing climbing robots. Key Engineering Materials, 649, pp. 22-29.

Publisher

Version

AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This paper is published in the journal Key Engineering Materials, the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.649.22.