Mechanical Design of a Crawler Hydraulic Sludge Cleaning Robot

Abstract

At present, most of the cleaning of oil storage tanks is in the manual cleaning stage. On the one hand, manual cleaning has high labor intensity and high-risk factor, on the other hand, low cleaning efficiency leads to high cleaning costs. In response to the urgent needs and actual operating conditions of the oil tank cleaning industry, the crawler hydraulic sludge cleaning robot is developed in this paper which can replace the manual cleaning of oil tanks to a certain extent. This article mainly introduces the structure and working process of the robot as well as the strength check of the key components. Afterwards, the kinematics analysis of the robot in the working state is carried out.