Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles by Siyang Xu

Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles by Siyang Xu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Bronze in Design Futuriste Competition Category.

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Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles

by Siyang Xu

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Futuriste Category

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The Design

About Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles

Le robot acoustique de dégivrage de câbles est un robot conceptuel conçu pour éliminer la glace des câbles électriques après les tempêtes de neige. L'appareil se fixe directement sur le câble. Un anneau chauffant cylindrique situé à l'intérieur du robot réchauffe progressivement la surface du câble jusqu'à ce que la glace fonde. Un matériau antigel appliqué sur la couche extérieure empêche la glace de se reformer. Des dispositifs de fermeture placés de part et d'autre maintiennent le robot solidement fixé pendant l'intervention. Une interface manuelle et une application mobile permettent à l'opérateur de programmer les tâches et d'en suivre l'avancement. Le robot vise à remplacer le dégivrage manuel en hauteur et à réduire les risques encourus par les travailleurs.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Robot de dégivrage de câbles satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is an intelligent robot that works after natural disasters.
When the snowstorm freezes the cable's outer layer in the city, the intelligent device can be used to remove the ice. The cylindrical heating ring in the middle of the deicing robot gradually heats up the cable's outer layer, and the outer layer of the cable is filled with frozen maintenance material to prevent the secondary freezing of the cable.
Dimensions & Packaging: The equipment is 310 mm long, 150 mm wide and 150 mm high.
Inner cylinder diameter 15-45 mm (adjustable according to cable diameter)
Tags: Intelligence, deicing, robot, controllable, solar energy, protection
Production Technology: High manganese steel is a high-metal material, and composite metal chromium fusion, hard and rust-proof. Titanium plating Technology can be used to enhance Surface friction
Design Challenge: It is difficult to search for deicing solutions in various countries in the process. The feedback of these programs varies greatly, and the starting point of the design should also take into account the degree of scientific and technological development of the country and whether the public can accept the arrival of new technology.
There are many disputes in the selection of materials, the materials of the equipment should take into account both high temperature and low temperature resistance, and work in different environments.
The data of cable diameter also varies from country to country, and the authors design an adjustable width of the inner diameter.
Research: The design is a conceptual design to solve the problem of production recovery under natural disasters.
The author hopes to improve the urban recovery after the snowstorm through this design.
Power outages occur in most cities after a snowstorm.
In the design process with the team members of multi-country questionnaires and disaster inquiries. These data reflect how different countries deal with the removal of cable ice. The purpose of the design is to improve some workers who work at height and reduce the risk factor at work.
Inspiration: In some extremely cold areas of various countries, power transmission is lost every year because a snowstorm freezes the cable. Let many cities into the paralysis without electricity.
And the handling of ice has always been done manually, so it is hazardous to work in the cold high air. A cable with a distance of 10 meters often takes workers 3-4 hours to clean.
Project Duration: The design plan begins in March 2019 and ends in November 2020 in the United States.
Operation Flow: There is a symmetrical closed switch on the left and right sides of the device, which is manually used to prevent the robot from automatically opening and falling off from the cable while it is working.
One side of the robot has a manual interface on which users can preset their work.
Secondly, the deicing robot also has control of the APP.
The operator can check the progress of the equipment on APP.
If the equipment is damaged, the user can stop the robot from working in time and rush to repair it.
In the working state, the equipment will flash orange light to prevent other organisms' interference, and the color can be set on its own.
Patents: No patent
Team Members: Zhouping Wei
Image Credits: image #1：Siyang Xu，image #2：Siyang Xu，image #3：Siyang Xu，image #3：Siyang Xu