Robot for Automatically Cleaning Floating Solar Panel and Photovoltaic System Capable of Diagnose Trouble

• Main Author: KIM GIL TAE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 27.04.2021
• Subjects: CLEANING; CLEANING IN GENERAL; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; GENERATION; GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-REDRADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USINGPHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING

Disclosed is a solar panel automatic cleaning robot that can autonomously clean solar panels. The solar panel automatic cleaning robot includes a first driving unit (110) including a first driving wheel (111), a first support frame (112), a gear stage (113), a first driving gear (114), and a first bracket (115) formed on one side of an outer frame (11) facing a solar panel (10); a second driving unit (120) including a second driving wheel (121), a second support frame (122), a gear stage (123), a second driving gear (124), and a second bracket (125), and a wheel shaft (126) formed on an opposite side of the outer frame 11 facing the solar panel (10); a brush module (130) including a support pipe (131), a brush shaft (132), and a brush (133); a motor module (140) including a motor shaft (141) coupled to the first driving gear (114), an electric motor (142) and a motor case (143); a camera module (150) for taking a thermal image and a real image of the solar panel (10), respectively; and a control unit (160) that analyzes the image captured by the camera module (150) to generate pollution source information and weather information of the solar panel (10), and differentially controls the motor module (140) to clean the solar panel (10) according to the pollution source location and pollution degree of pollution source information in rainy weather. 본 발명은, 태양광패널(10)의 대향하는 외곽 프레임(11) 중 일측에 형성된 제1주행휠(111)과 제1지지프레임(112)과 기어단(113)과 제1구동기어(114)와 제1브라켓(115)으로 구성되는 제1주행부(110), 태양광패널(10)의 대향하는 외곽 프레임(11) 중 타측에 형성된 제2주행휠(121)과 제2지지프레임(122)과 기어단(123)과 제2구동기어(124)와 제2브라켓(125)과 휠샤프트(126)로 구성되는 제2주행부(120), 지지파이프(131)와 브러쉬 샤프트(132)와 브러쉬(133)로 구성되는 브러쉬모듈(130), 제1구동기어(114)에 체결되는 모터샤프트(141)와 전기모터(142)와 모터케이스(143)로 구성되는 모터모듈(140), 태양광패널(10)의 열화상 및 실영상을 각각 촬영하는 카메라모듈(150), 및 카메라모듈(150)에 의해 촬영된 영상을 분석하여 태양광패널(10)의 오염원정보와 날씨정보를 생성하여, 우천시에, 오염원정보의 오염원위치와 오염도에 따라 모터모듈(140)을 차등 제어하여 태양광패널(10)을 청소하도록 하는 제어부(160)를 포함하는, 태양광패널 자동 청소로봇을 개시한다.