Design and Research on Impact Deicing Mechanism of Cable Climbing Robot

Abstract

In the cold area, the PE sleeve on the cable surface of cable-stayed bridge is easy to freeze, so it needs to be deiced regularly. Compared with manual deicing, cable climbing robot deicing is a more efficient method. In this paper, a deicing mechanism which can be installed on a cable climbing robot is designed. The deicing mechanism is composed of a crank slider mechanism and a special ice blade, which can break the icing by reciprocating impact to complete the deicing maintenance operation. This paper also uses ADAMS to conduct dynamics simulation to compare the force of the deicing mechanism on the icing at different operating speeds, and uses the Explicit Dynamics module in ANSYS to perform finite element simulation of the deicing mechanism to analyze its deicing effect. Finally, a deicing experiment was carried out to verify the effectiveness of the deicing mechanism.