The growing population and increasing demand for surface transportation have highlighted
the importance of maintaining safe and reliable civil infrastructures for daily use. Among all …

The non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of civil infrastructure has been an active area of
research in recent decades. The traditional inspection of civil infrastructure mostly relies on …

Climbing robots are designed to conduct tasks that may be dangerous for humans working
at height. In addition to improving safety, they can also increase task efficiency and reduce …

Abstract Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of civil
infrastructure has been an active area of research for the past few decades. Due to rising …

In climbing robots, weak gras**, large size, and a lack of self-perception capability are
critical problems that urgently need to be solved. Inspired by the excellent gras** ability of …

This paper presents a novel Cable Climbing Robot CCRobot-III, which is the third version
designed for bridge cable inspection tasks, aiming at surpassing previous versions in terms …

Regular maintenance of wire rope is considered the key to ensuring the safe operation of a
sluice gate. Along these lines, in this work, a six-wheeled wire rope climbing robot was …

Purpose The cable inspection robot is essential in maintaining bridge cables. The purpose
of this paper is to summarize the maintenance methods of bridge cables. It summarizes the …

This paper presents CCRobot-V, the fifth version of CCRobot, a cooperative serial multi-
robot system for bridge cable inspection and maintenance that uses silkworm-like …

A Flying-type cable climbing robot, CCRobot-IV-F, is presented in this paper. It is a climbing
precursor of the fourth version of CCRobot, designed to surpass the abilities of previous …