Cube High Altitude Cleaning UAV Highrise Glass by Guangpeng Yue is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Competition Category.
IronRobotics· 2021
Cube High Altitude Cleaning UAV Highrise Glass
Client: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
A' Design Award Winner in Robotics Category
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About Cube High Altitude Cleaning UAV Highrise Glass
Cube is an unmanned aerial vehicle designed for cleaning the glass of high rise buildings. The omnidirectional aircraft has eight propellers and can rotate freely in the air. Onboard sensors determine the position and onboard computing determines the flight path. The square frame carries up to five separate cleaning modules, each with a water tank and surface nozzles. Small balls at the four corners help each module move across the glass. Solar panels recharge the modules during the operation. The design reduces the cost and the risk of manual cleaning at height.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award
Cube High Altitude Cleaning UAV Highrise Glass is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. Cube High Altitude Cleaning UAV Highrise Glass is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. Cube High Altitude Cleaning UAV Highrise Glass is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Use Glass cleaner instead of High altitude practitioners to complete high risk operations. An omnidirectional helicopter with 8 propellers can rotate 360 degrees freely in the air. Each drone can pick up multiple modules back and forth, the part where the modules are removed can be charged by solar energy.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Body length 540mm width 540mm height 540mm.
- Tags
- Glass cleaning, automation, modularization, solar electromagnetic panel.
- Production Technology
- Onboard sensors, onboard calculations, 8 axis lengthy, Solar charging.
- Design Challenge
- The form and integration of the function of the cabo module and the flight module.
- Research
- The design uses airborne sensors to determine location and airborne calculations to determine actions. An omnidirectional helicopter with 8 propellers can rotate 360 degrees in the air. The whole is a square frame, and there are six glass wiping modules that can be split into independent units at will. There are water tanks inside, the surface nozzles spray water. The four small balls on the four corners are convenient for moving when the glass is wiped.
- Inspiration
- Using modern drone high altitude cleaning instead of traditional manual cleaning of high altitude glass can greatly reduce the cost of high altitude cleaning and reduce the risk of personnel falling from high altitude. Using the modular design concept, the drone can carry up to 5 cleaning modules to work together at a time.
- Project Duration
- The project was launched in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in June 2020, and ended in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in December 2020.
- Operation Flow
- The Glass cleaner uses the airborne calculation standard path, sends the cleaning module to the glass of the high altitude building, starts the cleaning operation after freely rotating and positioning the next working platform. The back of the module provides continuous power to the solar panel. After completing the operation, the flight module retrieves the cleaning module.
- Team Members
- Guangpeng Yue
Shiqi Wang
Zefeng Li
Hang Yin
Huaidong Yang
Xi Zu
Hongbo Ren
Zhiyuan Guo
Haitao Yuan
Yingyi Li
Jiayang Zhang
Siyu Ding
Ziming Yang
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