The maintenance of underwater infrastructures and equipment remains dominated by
manual operation, resulting in high costs and safety concerns. Recent advances in …

The interest in the development of climbing robots has grown rapidly in the last years.
Climbing robots are useful devices that can be adopted in a variety of applications, such as …

Robots are an artificial intelligent machines designed and manufactured by human beings.
Such robots are coded with smart computer programs to handle the multi tasks given by the …

This paper addresses the kinematics modeling and control of a novel nonholonomic wheel-
based pole climbing robot called UT-PCR. This robot belongs to a challenging and less …

This paper describes the current development status of a mobile robot designed to inspect
the outer surface of large oil ship hulls and floating production storage and offloading …

In this paper, a wireless, multisensor inspection system for nondestructive evaluation (NDE)
of materials is described. The sensor configuration enables two inspection modes-magnetic …

Mobile service robots for carrying out inspections of industrial infrastructure gain importance
eg due to aging infrastructure and demographics. This paper describes inspection tasks …

At present, high speed dual purpose rail/road vehicles employing fixed non-destructive
testing (NDT) sensors are used to inspect rails. Due to the uncertainties in characterisation …

Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) cracks are a widespread problem that impairs the service life
of railway rails and wheels, with an associated high cost of labour and capital expenditure …

Oil, petrochemical, and food processing industries worldwide store their raw materials and
product in tens of thousands of storage tanks. The tanks are mostly constructed using …