Widgtech Ashman Veículo de Limpeza de Painéis Fotovoltaicos by Hao Huang and Xu Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Prata in Design de Robótica, Autómatos e Automação Competition Category.
PrataRobótica· 2023
Widgtech Ashman Veículo de Limpeza de Painéis Fotovoltaicos
Client: Widgtech
A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Robótica Category
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The Design
About Widgtech Ashman Veículo de Limpeza de Painéis Fotovoltaicos
O Widgtech Ashman é um veículo de limpeza concebido para painéis solares fotovoltaicos em grandes centrais elétricas. O veículo utiliza tração puramente elétrica, um chassi de lagartas e uma função inteligente de definição de trajeto. Um reservatório central de água comporta 200 litros e permite a limpeza de milhares de metros quadrados de painéis. O braço mecânico possui seis graus de liberdade e integra um módulo de reconhecimento de imagem, um pulverizador de água atomizada e um cabeçote de limpeza. O módulo de reconhecimento de imagem analisa cada painel e orienta o braço mecânico durante a limpeza. O projeto reduz o trabalho manual e o consumo de água.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Prata
Widgtech Ashman Veículo de Limpeza de Painéis Fotovoltaicos conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Widgtech Ashman Veículo de Limpeza de Painéis Fotovoltaicos seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Widgtech Ashman Veículo de Limpeza de Painéis Fotovoltaicos é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Widgtech Ashman has pure electric drive and crawler chassis, with intelligent pathfinding function. The central water tank has 200 liters capacity, supporting cleaning of thousands of square meters of photovoltaic panels. The mechanical arm has six degrees of freedom and is equipped with image recognition module, atomizing water sprayer and cleaning tow head. The image recognition module analyzes the photovoltaic panel and controls the mechanical arm to do the cleaning work.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The body is 1900mm long, 1190mm wide and 750mm high. The effective working radius of the arm (including the trailer part) is about 2500mm, the maximum load is 10kg, and the working power consumption is 400W. The net weight of the chassis is 450kg, the net weight of the arm is 58kg, and the water tank is full load of 200kg.
- Tags
- Photovoltaic, intelligent equipment, cleaning operation, environmental protection, unmanned, automatic control.
- Production Technology
- The body and main arm structure of the cleaning vehicle are made of aluminum alloy by stamping. Two kinds of dark gray matte paint are used for the appearance. The track is made of polyurethane polymer material by injection molding, light weight, wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant.
- Design Challenge
- The intelligent control of the cleaning vehicle is the biggest challenge, especially the intelligent recognition of the surface area of the photovoltaic panel. It is a great challenge to make accurate judgment under different light and distance. To solve this problem, we use deep convolution algorithm for a large number of identification learning, and use different sensors for auxiliary recognition to improve the availability of the equipment.
- Research
- Photovoltaic panels for photovoltaic power generation need regular cleaning to avoid reduced power generation efficiency or burning due to hot spot effect. In the south, the scale is small and the water environment is easy to clean. In the north, however, large scale, lack of water and wind and sand dust increase labor and material costs and make traditional spraying very wasteful of water. Thus, power-driven intelligent equipment for unmanned precise operation has great advantages.
- Inspiration
- Solar energy industry has made great contributions to energy conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection as green energy. In northern region photovoltaic bases, cleaning work has been a great challenge due to environment conditions and park size. Widgtech Ashman adopted intelligent tracking and image recognition technology for unmanned cleaning work, saving manpower, controlling water usage and ensuring cleaning efficiency and effect.
- Project Duration
- The project started in May 2022 and finished in February 2023 in Beijing.
- Operation Flow
- Widgtech Ashman's intelligent photovoltaic cleaning car is mainly used for regular cleaning of solar photovoltaic panels in large photovoltaic power plants, aiming to solve the problem of large-scale solar photovoltaic panel cleaning under conditions such as northern region, complex terrain, water shortage environment and unmanned environment.
- Team Members
- Hao Huang, Xu Chen, Qian Hao, Fangbo Wu, Zhihan Yuan, Yating Zhou, Ge Song, Junyi Wei, Rong Zhang
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