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Autonomous robot for clearing snow from roofs
A robot for clearing snow has a main body; a traction arrangement enabling motion of the robot on snow lying on a roof; a snow-removal device; and at least one depth sensor. A processing and control unit controls at least one motor to direct the robot to follow a snow-clearing path; receives a depth signal from the depth sensor(s); and, as a function of the depth signal, actively controls a snow-clearing depth by actuating the snow-removal device and, as the robot follows the snow-clearing path, adjusting a vertical snow-clearing distance so as to leave a layer of snow of a pre-determined depth on the roof after clearing and to prevent contact by the snow-removal device with a surface of the roof. During snow removal, no part of the snow-removal device contacts the roof surface other than at most the traction arrangement.
Autonomous robot for clearing snow from roofs
A robot for clearing snow has a main body; a traction arrangement enabling motion of the robot on snow lying on a roof; a snow-removal device; and at least one depth sensor. A processing and control unit controls at least one motor to direct the robot to follow a snow-clearing path; receives a depth signal from the depth sensor(s); and, as a function of the depth signal, actively controls a snow-clearing depth by actuating the snow-removal device and, as the robot follows the snow-clearing path, adjusting a vertical snow-clearing distance so as to leave a layer of snow of a pre-determined depth on the roof after clearing and to prevent contact by the snow-removal device with a surface of the roof. During snow removal, no part of the snow-removal device contacts the roof surface other than at most the traction arrangement.
Autonomous robot for clearing snow from roofs
JUHLIN DANIEL (author)
2024-12-26
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
SNOW CLEARING DEVICE AND SNOW CLEARING SYSTEM FOR CLEARING OF SNOW
| European Patent Office | 2018
| NTIS | 1963