Mooring chain climbing robot for NDT inspection applications
Conference paper
Kimball, M, Amit, A, Gmerek, A, Collins, P, Wheateley, A, Shah, K, Liu, J, Dissanayake, M, Caroll, J, Plastropoulos, A, Karfakis, P, Virk, GS and Sattar, TP (2018). Mooring chain climbing robot for NDT inspection applications. Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines CLAWAR 2018. Panama City, Panama 10 - 12 Sep 2018 World Scientific Publishing.
Authors | Kimball, M, Amit, A, Gmerek, A, Collins, P, Wheateley, A, Shah, K, Liu, J, Dissanayake, M, Caroll, J, Plastropoulos, A, Karfakis, P, Virk, GS and Sattar, TP |
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Type | Conference paper |
Abstract | Inspection of mooring chains is an important but dangerous and costly procedure covering inspection above and below the waterline. The paper presents initial results from the RIMCAW project which aimed at designing and building an inspection robot able to climb mooring chains and deploy NDT technologies for scanning individual links thereby detecting critical defects. The paper focuses on the design and realisation of the inchworm type novel crawler developed and tested in the TWI Middlesbrough, UK water tank. |
Keywords | Mooring chain NDT; Mooring chain Climbing Robot; Chain Inspection; Inchworm robot; Stewart Platform |
Year | 2018 |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | |
10 Sep 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Jun 2018 |
Accepted | 26 Jun 2018 |
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ID38 Mooring Chain Climbing robot for NDT applications-CLAWAR2018 22_06_18 Final.pdf | ||
License: CC BY 4.0 | ||
File access level: Open |
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