...Vivian Suzano Medeiros; Alan Conci Kubrusly; Raphael Lydia Bertoche; Miguel Andrade Freitas; Claudio Camerini; Jorge Luiz F. Brito; Jean Pierre von der Weid Purpose The inspection of flexible risers is a critical activity to ensure continuous productivity and safety in oil and gas production...

...Yaming Wang; Feng Ju; Yahui Yun; Jiafeng Yao; Yaoyao Wang; Hao Guo; Bai Chen Purpose This paper aims to introduce an aircraft engine inspection robot (AEIR) which can go in the internal of the aircraft engine without collision and detect damage for engine blades. Design/methodology/approach...

.../approach Following a short introduction, the first parts of this paper describe a selection of recent research activities that involve innovative concepts and designs. The second part discusses climbing robot developments aimed at the automated inspection, maintenance and repair of wind turbine blades...

...Robert Bogue Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight on the use of robots in a range of industrial test and inspection applications. Design/methodology/approach Following a brief introduction, this discusses robotic test and inspection products and practices in the following...

...Haojie Zhang; Bo Su; Hong Meng Purpose With the dramatically increasing number of substations, robots are expected to inspect equipment in the power industry. However, a traditional robotic system cannot work stably because of the strong electromagnetic field in substation. The purpose...

...Mohamed Gouda Alkalla; Mohamed A. Fanni; Abdelfatah M. Mohamed; Shuji Hashimoto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new propeller-type climbing robot called EJBot for climbing various types of structures that include significant obstacles, besides inspection of industrial vessels...

... leadership, RACE is involved in exploring many areas of remote operations, including inspection, maintenance and decommissioning and will be instrumental in developing new remote tools and techniques for academia and industry. Originality/value With the unique experience of studying at a university’s...

... of continuous surveying and cleanup operations in the flooded basement. Joanne Pransky can be contacted at: drjoanne@robot.md 09 04 2016 09 04 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Aerospace Inspection...

... 18 02 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Inspection Robot design Magnetic wheel Steel bridge Steel bridges play an important role in the transportation network and support the nation’s economy...

...Shuntao Liu; Zhixiong Yang; Zhijun Zhu; Liangliang Han; Xiangyang Zhu; Kai Xu Purpose Slim and dexterous manipulators with long reaches can perform various exploration and inspection tasks in confined spaces. This paper aims to present the development of such a dexterous continuum manipulator...

...Tan Chen; Wei-jun Zhang; Jian-jun Yuan; Liang Du; Ze-yu Zhou Purpose – This paper aims to present a different cooling method (water cooling) to protect all the mechanical/electrical components for Tokamak in-vessel inspection manipulator. The method is demonstrated effective through high...

... for premium car manufacturers as each vehicle is watered and manually inspected for leakage. This paper delivers an approach that optimizes the efficiency and capability of the test process by using a new automated in-line inspection system whereby thermographic images are taken by a lightweight robot system...

...). According to the pinhole camera model, we have: Equation 2 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Positioning Inspection Localization Mobile robots Robot vision Ultrasonic non-destructive testing (UT) is vital in safety critical industries such as aerospace, chemical processing...

...A. Mostashfi; A. Fakhari; Mohammad Ali Badri Purpose – In this article, a detailed design of a novel power line inspection robot is studied. This robot can be used to move on ground wires for special purposes such as inspection and fault detection of electric power lines. The paper aims...

.../approach – This paper presents four user studies concerning human-robot interfaces for teleoperation in industrial inspection tasks. Their purpose is to resolve contradictory scientific findings regarding aspects of teleoperation and to verify functionality, usability, and technology acceptance...

... vision Inspection Quality assurance Assembly Robert Bogue can be contacted at: robbogue@aol.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Figure 3 The robotic head, showing lasers, sensors, light sources and suction cups Figure 4 The robot handling a door...

...Melquisedec F. Santos; Maurício O. Brito; Cassiano Neves; Luciano L. Menegaldo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a new multi‐sensor robotic system designed for riser, mooring lines and umbilical cables in situ underwater inspection. Due to the aggressive operation...

...Stefan Winkvist; Emma Rushforth; Ken Young Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a novel approach to the design of an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to aid with the internal inspection and classification of tall or large structures. Focusing mainly on the challenge of robustly...

... could solve production problems such as inspection, drilling, sealing and swaging inside wings and other limited access structures. A more traditional Industrial robot from KUKA GmbH is used to “deliver” the snake‐arm robot close to the working location (Figure 2). This demonstrator system has a snake...

... of power generators. Design/methodology/approach After a brief description of the industrial environment where it is supposed to be used (inspection of generator stators with the rotor still installed), this paper describes the basic mechanical concept, pointing to the core innovation...