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Optimal Parameter Design of a Cleaning Device for Vertical Glass Surfaces

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Cleaning of building windows is an extremely important issue for building owners. As construction techniques are continuously being developed, many high-rise buildings are being constructed in a competitive manner. Building owners hire human workers for cleaning their façades, who are required to hang on a rope or gondola, which takes a long time and is highly dangerous. To reduce the number of accidents and replace human workers, many researchers are developing façade maintenance robots, most of which simply use a brush and water. In this study, a new cleaning device consisting of a brush, nozzle, squeegee, and suction device was developed, and the design parameters were optimized using the Taguchi method. Cleaning experiments were conducted after contaminating windows, and the degree of contamination was measured quantitatively after applying an imaging technique.

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This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT for First-Mover Program for Accelerating Disruptive Technology Development (NRF-2018M3C1B9088328).

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  1. Jooyoung Hong and Sungkeun Yoo have equally contributed to this paper as a first author.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Korea

    Jooyoung Hong, Sungkeun Yoo, Inho Joo & Jongwon Kim

  2. Department of Mechanical System Engineering, Kyonggi University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, 16227, Korea

    Hwa Soo Kim

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea

    TaeWon Seo

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Hong, J., Yoo, S., Joo, I. et al. Optimal Parameter Design of a Cleaning Device for Vertical Glass Surfaces. Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. 20, 233–241 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-019-00043-x

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