A Comprehensive Survey of Pole Climbing Robots

Abstract

With the development of automation technology and the increase in the difficulty of work in industries, pole climbing robots gradually replace workers to complete various dangerous and difficult tasks. So far, many sorts of pole climbing robots have been developed and have been applied. In this work, we introduced the development history of pole climbing robots combined with their application scenario, and then summarized the adsorption, wheeled, clamping, and bionic pole climbing robots in details with mechanical structure, driving mode, advantages, disadvantages and application environments. It is unrealistic to concentrate all the advantages on one robot product to accomplish all the tasks. Currently, pole climbing robots that perform special tasks can only be tailored to the needs of the scenario requirement.