In Korea, water spraying to suppress the dust during building dismantling operations has been done manually by human laborers, considered extremely dangerous since it often causes fatal accidents. Abroad, however, water spraying machines have been developed and used in construction sites instead of workers to prevent such serious industrial accidents. In this study, the first domestic water spraying machine is suggested. Since the spraying machine should have a novel dust tracking function, an optimal structure and mechanism should be designed to guarantee its motion performance. The motion for target tracking is achieved by the 2 DOF (Degrees of Freedom) structure comprising a linear and a rotary actuator. Then, the geometric analysis was performed to provide a sufficient kinematic workspace. Through the dynamic performance simulation, the optimal actuator capacities could be selected to generate an appropriate acceleration. The geometric and dynamic performance was evaluated by the extensive motion experiments. With this study, it is expected that an advanced water spraying machine can be developed only with domestic technologies to protect construction laborers from potentially dangerous accidents.
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