Autonomous fasteners robot design for removing a door in remote handling application

Abstract

This thesis explores autonomous mobile robots for remote fastener removal in nuclear fusion reactors. Through the motor, transmission device and supporting electronic remote control device, the robot moves forward and turns along the preset fixed track, and stops at the correct position, and then uses the nut tool to remove the target fastener until the entire removal of bolts within the track range enables the rapid and automated removal of the vacuum sealing plate in the nuclear fusion reactor to avoid personnel safety issues, efficiency issues, and compliance issues faced by human workers entering limited spaces to operate.

In addition, this thesis also conducts a preliminary analysis and comparison of similar products and similar applications already on the market and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the robot design in this thesis as well as possible solutions, thereby making preliminary contributions to commercial application. And this thesis further discusses and expands the possibilities of the use cases and uses of such robots so that this achievement can be utilized in other industrial environments, such as bolting tools produced in combination with different molds, and the product can be used to remove other types of fasteners and other rails, thereby achieving single design, multiple manufacturing, and multiple uses, reducing the cost of repeated R&D and production, and also making new attempts in the field of sustainable development.