Heavy Load Transport Control System with Rotating Adapter
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for transporting heavy loads, such as rotor blades for wind power generators, face challenges in navigating through facilities and environmental conditions without collisions or interferences, particularly in areas with bridges, tunnels, and curved sections, and require separate support units and complex configurations.
Innovation Solution
A system with an adjusting unit that includes a clamping member, an adapter for rotating and moving the load upward, downward, leftward, and rightward, and sensors for automatic adjustment, allowing for precise positioning and collision avoidance, integrated into a transport vehicle to enhance transport efficiency and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a tilting unit is used to erect the turbine blade after reaching the final destination, then the blade can be positioned vertically, but the blade may collide or interfere with facilities around the road during transport
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary positioning adjustments during transport rather than waiting until the destination. The rotating member, moving member, and height adjusting member can be activated at any point during transport to adjust the rotor blade's position, preventing collisions with facilities before they occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit receives real-time data from sensors about the transport vehicle's position and surrounding facilities, then automatically adjusts the rotor blade's position using the adjusting unit. This closed-loop control system prevents collisions by continuously monitoring and responding to environmental conditions during transport.
2Stability of the object's composition
If separate support units are used to stabilize the transport vehicle, then the vehicle can maintain stability during transport, but the system becomes more complex and requires additional equipment
Solution Approach 1:
The stability function is merged into the existing adjusting unit rather than being provided by separate support units. The rotating member, moving member, and height adjusting member work together to provide both position adjustment and stabilization functions, eliminating the need for additional dedicated support equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjusting unit serves multiple functions: it adjusts the rotor blade's position and orientation for navigation through facilities, and simultaneously provides stabilization during transport. This multi-functional design reduces overall system complexity by consolidating what would otherwise require separate specialized components.
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AI summary
Disclosed are a system for controlling transport of a heavy load by which a transport vehicle smoothly transports a heavy load such as a rotor blade of a wind power generator, which has a high weight and a large length, without collisions or interferences by controlling movement of the heavy load according to a facility around a road or a peripheral environmental condition in a process of transporting the heavy load on the road with the transport vehicle, a transport vehicle, and a method of controlling transport of a heavy load. The system includes: an adjusting unit for controlling rotation or movements of the heavy load so that collision or interference of the heavy load with a facility around a road or a peripheral environmental condition is prevented in a process of transporting the heavy load after the heavy load is fixedly mounted to the transport vehicle.