Climbing Robots for NDT Applications

Rashed, Mohammed Al; Kimball, M; Vega, Luis A.; Vera, David; Soler, José; Correa, Marcos; Garcia, Ana Cristina Palacios; Virk, GS; Sattar, TP

doi:10.1142/9789813231047_0036

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“…A great example of the use of robots in NDT is both the crawling and climbing robots which have been developed to be used at a range of difficult to access situations such as highway bridges, tunnels, wind turbine blades and towers, hull ships, pipelines, nuclear installations, etc. [17]. Robots are not only able to execute visual inspections but also ultrasonic, acoustic, thermal and others as well.…”

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THE IMPACT OF 4 th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) ON NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHODS

Misokefalou¹,

Papoutsidakis²,

Priniotakis³

2022

IJEAST

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The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is developing, leading the transition to the post-industrial era. Both the industry and the business world as well as the civil society, have already realized that the world as it exists is about to change due to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Many countries and stakeholders, realizing (4IR)’s importance, have already incorporated it into official policies while the companies at the forefront are called upon to integrate a variety of new technologies. Among other technologies, in this context, the evolution of non-destructive testing is of significant importance, having a positive impact not only on productivity but also on numerous technical, managerial, and economical aspects of the final product. The present work attempts to highlight this issue and form the basis for relevant future research.

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Section: The Impact Of Ir4 On Ndtmentioning

confidence: 99%

THE IMPACT OF 4 th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) ON NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHODS

Misokefalou¹,

Papoutsidakis²,

Priniotakis³

2022

IJEAST

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“…1 and with material properties listed in Table I, COMSOL simulations computed the force as 1156.8 N (close to specified magnet technical specifications, thus validating the model). It is shown in [8] that adding a yoke of high permeability to close the magnet circuit from one side results in a significant increase in adhesion force on the other side. The results showed that adding an iron yoke of the same size as the steel plate increases the force to 1663.3 N. This model was used as a base model to build an App using the COMSOL Application Builder.…”

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“…Wall-climbing robots have been developed for nondestructive testing [8], laser cutting for nuclear decommissioning [9], window cleaning [10], maintenance and inspection of vertical structures [11], inspection of petrochemical tanks [12], and wind turbine towers/blades [13].…”

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An Autonomous Wall Climbing Robot for Inspection of Reinforced Concrete Structures: SIRCAUR

Garrido

Sattar

2021

JAIT

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A wall climbing inspection robot has been designed to climb on safety critical concrete structures by adhering to reinforcement steel bars (rebars) using permanent magnets to generate the adhesion forces. Simulation and experimental validation has been performed to determine the optimum flux focusing magnet configurations with the robot operating on 30 to 35mm of concrete cover over rebars arranged in different patterns. The goal of adhesion force optimization is to be able to carry a ground penetrating radar (GPR) sensor which detects rebar corrosion, concrete delamination and concrete cover deterioration. The autonomous robot uses an ultra-wide band (UWB) localisation system and GPR data to control its motion trajectories to avoid regions where there is insufficient density of rebars. Non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection data acquired by GPR is transmitted wirelessly to a ground station for processing and monitoring by NDT technicians.

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“…The authors are with the Robotics Team and the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden Corresponding Author's email: geoand@ltu.se surfaces, which could render them unsuitable for analysis techniques like Non Destructive Testing (NDT) [12]. Specifically, this article is a continuation of the work presented in [13], [14], which introduced a Vortex Actuation System (VAS), for investigating the potential of Electric Ducted Fans (EDFs) as non-contact adhesion actuators, while providing a methodology for optimizing their adhesion performance.…”

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Design, Development and Experimental Evaluation of a Thrust Vectoring Vortex Climbing Robot

Papadirnitriou

Ανδρικόπουλος

Nikolakopoulos

2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

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Climbing Robots for NDT Applications

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THE IMPACT OF 4 th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) ON NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHODS

THE IMPACT OF 4 th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) ON NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING METHODS

An Autonomous Wall Climbing Robot for Inspection of Reinforced Concrete Structures: SIRCAUR

Design, Development and Experimental Evaluation of a Thrust Vectoring Vortex Climbing Robot

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