Numerous marine sessile organisms adhere to ship hulls and increase the sailing
resistance. Antibiofouling paints are employed to maintain the ship performance. However …

This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of ship hull cleaning
technologies. Various cleaning methods and devices applied to dry-dock cleaning and …

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 …

This paper describes the design of an umbilical-free mobile non-destructive testing (NDT)
climbing robot for industrial applications that is capable of inspecting oil tanks, pipelines …

This paper presents a climbing robot with wheeled locomotion and adhesion through
permanent magnets, developed with the intention of being used in the inspection of different …

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 …

This paper describes the design and development of a prototype swimming and wall-
climbing robot that gains access to internal tank wall and floor surfaces on Floating …

Wall climbing robots are extremely useful for deployment in hazardous environments and
operation at great heights and other hard to reach space. However, these robots usually …

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 …