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Mingxi Li's Socl Industrial Cleaning Robots exemplify a sophisticated convergence of functional industrial design and humanistic formal language, presenting an autonomous floor-cleaning unit whose vol
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Bronze Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design · 2024

Socl Industrial Cleaning Robots

by Guangpeng Yue

  • A' Design Award 2024 Bronze Winner in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
  • Awarded April 15, 2024
  • CLIENT: LuXun Academy of Fine Arts
  • Estimated Number of Design Views: 45,423
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About Socl Industrial Cleaning Robots

Socl is an industrial cleaning robot developed for factory environments. The robot combines the flexibility of service robots with the efficiency and safety of industrial robots. After a cleaning task is entered, Socl scans the factory layout, creates a map and plans a suitable cleaning route. Laser, vision and ultrasonic sensors help the robot avoid obstacles and prevent falls. Socl can also work with elevators and automatic doors, so cleaning is completed without stopping production. A modular design allows functions to be selected according to need.

Industrial cleaning robot systems represent a significant evolution within automated maintenance technology, translating principles of precision engineering and thoughtful user-centered design into functional autonomous platforms capable of addressing the substantial operational demands of commercial and institutional facilities. The design under consideration, presenting a paired modular configuration, demonstrates sophisticated volumetric composition through its clear geometric massing and deliberate chromatic differentiation, establishing visual legibility that serves both aesthetic and practical communication functions within complex operational environments. The compositional strategy employs contrasting material treatments—matte anthracite and glossy white thermoplastic housings—that articulate distinct functional zones while maintaining cohesive formal language through shared proportional systems, consistent horizontal datum alignments, and unified detail resolution across chamfered edges, fastener placement, and panel articulation. This chromatic opposition transcends mere decorative impulse, potentially serving critical operational roles including unit identification, spatial orientation assistance, and visual hierarchy establishment within busy industrial settings where rapid recognition and intuitive navigation prove essential to workflow efficiency. The design exhibits notable attention to detail legibility, with recessed lighting indicators, octagonal access apertures, and carefully resolved corner treatments suggesting thorough consideration of maintenance accessibility, component serviceability, and long-term operational durability—qualities particularly valued within commercial equipment contexts where lifecycle cost considerations and minimized downtime constitute primary selection criteria. The overall formal vocabulary engages with established industrial design traditions emphasizing honest material expression, geometric clarity, and functional transparency, eschewing unnecessary ornamental gesture in favor of purposeful form articulation where every volumetric inflection, surface transition, and detail element appears justified by operational logic or ergonomic consideration. The elevated cylindrical terminals crowning each module suggest sophisticated sensor integration, potentially housing environmental awareness systems, navigational guidance technology, or communication arrays enabling coordinated multi-unit operation within complex spatial environments. The polished concrete substrate and neutral architectural backdrop situate these maintenance platforms within contemporary commercial and institutional contexts, environments demanding both technical performance and visual discretion, where equipment must function effectively without imposing disruptive aesthetic presence or generating maintenance burden through elaborate styling vulnerable to environmental degradation. These autonomous systems invite contemplation regarding the evolving relationship between human operators and intelligent mechanical assistants, the translation of complex technological capability into approachable physical form, and the ongoing challenge of designing commercial equipment that balances operational excellence with visual refinement, creating tools that enhance rather than merely occupy the environments they serve—how might such thoughtfully conceived maintenance platforms contribute to more efficient, sustainable, and humane built environments where technological assistance elevates rather than replaces human capability and judgment?

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Unique Properties
SOCL cleaning robot is an intelligent robot focusing on cleaning operations in the industrial field, which innovatively integrates the intelligence and flexibility of service robots with the efficiency and safety of industrial robots. The SOCL cleaning robot incorporates the concept of future intelligent technology - tough lines, solitary and ingenious color matching and lights full of sci-fi elements which surrounding industrial environment.
Dimensions & Packaging
宽936mm,深840mm,高1035mm,重量280kg,清洗宽度750mm,油箱间隙容量80L,油箱容量70L,运行方向向前向后转弯旋转,转弯半径旋转到位,最小行走通道宽度1200mm,旋转通道宽度1200mm,安全保护激光视觉超声波防坠落,贴边距离20cm
Tags
Intelligent, fully automated, rapid deployment, multi-operation mode, safe and efficient, modular
Production Technology
实施技术、工业SLAM导航技术、iMRS移动机器人控制系统
Design Challenge
研究难点在于,满足复杂的清洁任务,与工厂设备无缝对接,在不暂停生产操作的情况下完成清洁操作,自主避免,自动化工作站,整个过程无需人工干预。现在我们已经解决了上述问题,实现了批量生产。
Project Duration
项目将于2021年开始,2023年结束,中国辽宁沈阳
Operation Flow
操作流程如下,将清洁任务指令输入产品系统,机器人将自动开始工作,扫描工厂布局,生成全景图,并根据任务指令指定最优清洁方案,从而实现复杂清洁任务的高效全自动化处理。在清洁过程中,会遇到障碍物,工作人员会自动避开,以确保安全。
Research
专注于工业领域清洁操作的智能机器人,满足复杂的清洁任务。卫星清洁机器人的出现,将人们从繁琐危险的工业清洁作业中解放出来。它可以与工厂中的设备无缝连接,在不暂停生产操作的情况下完成清洁操作。星威莱机器人采用模块化设计理念,用户可以根据实际需求定制功能模块。
Inspiration
The emergence of the product liberated people from complex, cumbersome and dangerous industrial cleaning operations. Not only that, it can also cooperate with elevators, automatic doors and other equipment in the factory, especially IC equipment, new energy battery manufacturing, intelligent black light factory and other fields.
Patents
202011547871.7
ZL 2019 1 1373527.8
ZL 2022 3 0446001.4
ZL 2019 1 1373527.8
ZL 2017 1 1455428.5

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