Study and design of an unmanned intelligent cleaning robot for photovoltaic panel

Zijing Wu; Yanling Pi; Wenxuan Ni; Jiajun Gao; Junchi Lu

doi:10.1117/12.3014799

4 March 2024 Study and design of an unmanned intelligent cleaning robot for photovoltaic panel

Zijing Wu, Yanling Pi, Wenxuan Ni, Jiajun Gao, Junchi Lu

Proceedings Volume 12981, Ninth International Symposium on Sensors, Mechatronics, and Automation System (ISSMAS 2023); 129815H (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014799
Event: 9th International Symposium on Sensors, Mechatronics, and Automation (ISSMAS 2023), 2023, Nanjing, China

Abstract

Photovoltaic industry is the direction of green development and energy saving, emission reduction is strongly supported by national policy with huge market space. Intelligent manufacturing, machine for human, artificial intelligence, remote operation and maintenance have also gone from early pilot to large-scale commercial use, while the cleaning of PV power plants is still mainly manual at present. This paper designs an unmanned intelligent cleaning robot for distributed PV power plants. In the layout of the robot, the front part of the robot is equipped with a roller brush cleaning mechanism, the middle part is the mobile body, and the tail part is equipped with charging and collision avoidance guidance devices. The front roller brush takes up all the cleaning tasks, so that the center of gravity of the body tends to the front, while the overall layout of the robot in the middle is reasonably optimized. Therefore, the center of gravity of the robot is closer to the center of the body, and the reasonable size and mass ratios make the robot significantly improve in turning, obstacle crossing, obstacle avoidance, and smoothness of walking. The design of the overall structure and working principle of the robot is elaborated, the implementation of its motion functions is analyzed in depth, and the robot is applied to a photovoltaic panel for verification experiments. The experimental results show that the robot has a reasonable hardware layout and excellent core technology, which can significantly improve the technical level of the photovoltaic panel cleaning robot in terms of adaptability, reliability and practicality.

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Zijing Wu, Yanling Pi, Wenxuan Ni, Jiajun Gao, and Junchi Lu "Study and design of an unmanned intelligent cleaning robot for photovoltaic panel", Proc. SPIE 12981, Ninth International Symposium on Sensors, Mechatronics, and Automation System (ISSMAS 2023), 129815H (4 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3014799

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