Once working at heights is dangerous, it is a significant accident. These accidents brought
substantial economic losses and caused a large number of casualties. Therefore, it is …

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

Recently, numerous wall-climbing robots have been developed for petrochemical tank
maintenance. However, most of them are difficult to be widely applied due to common …

Underwater welding robots play a crucial role in addressing challenges such as low
efficiency, suboptimal performance, and high risks associated with underwater welding …

This article presents modelling, simulation, and development of a wall-climbing robot based
on coupled wheel and arm-type locomotion mechanism. The developed robot consists of …

This paper presents a multi-link magnetic wheeled pipeline robot (PR-I), which is a flexible
and modular robotic mechanism. It is designed for inspection, cleaning or disinfection of …

Omnidirectional mobile wall-climbing robots have better motion performance than traditional
wall-climbing robots. However, there are still challenges in designing and controlling …

Due to the inspection demand of curved permeable metal walls, such as large ships, a wall-
climbing robot that can adapt to various curvatures of metal walls is built to solve the …

At present, numerous wall-climbing robots have been developed, and applied in ship
manufacturing for weld detection to ensure safe navigation. Limited by rigid mechanical …

This article investigates the limitations associated with traditional wheel-type pipeline
walking devices, which are characterized by a single movement mode and an inability to …