屋根の上を歩く：屋根工事における歩行ロボットの可能性を探る
Walking on Roofs: Exploring the Potential of Walking Robots for Construction Work on Roofs
四足歩行ロボット（Unitree Go2）を屋根環境で使用する可能性を検討し、傾斜屋根での標準的な球状足の限界を実験的に明らかにした。
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著者: Bjoern-Felix Dettmar, Arne Roennau
分類: cs.RO
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This paper investigates the feasibility of deploying quadruped walking robots for the automation of work in roof environments. While quadrupeds have demonstrated versatility across various domains, their large-scale deployment remains limited, partly due to lack of application-specific designs. Roof environments represent a novel and unexplored use case, combining high safety risks for human workers with repetitive, strenuous tasks that could benefit from robotic assistance. A dedicated test rig of a roof's surface was designed to evaluate the baseline performance of a commercial quadruped, the \emph{Unitree Go2}, in this new environment. Experiments revealed that standard ball feet are inherently inadequate for locomotion on sloped roofs: slippage increased quadratically with incline angle, get-up and lie-down sequences were only possible on small inclines, and critical failures already occurred regularly on moderate inclines of 25°. This work provides the first systematic assessment of quadruped locomotion in roof environments, highlighting both the potential and the current limitations of this application and establishes a baseline for future research. Effective solutions will require a combination of task-oriented foot designs, advanced contact mechanics and environment-specific control strategies, such as reinforcement learning for roof-adapted gaits.