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Novel Aerial Manipulator for Accurate and Robust Industrial NDT Contact Inspection: A New Tool for the Oil and Gas Inspection Industry
(MDPI, 2019-03)
There is a strong demand in the oil and gas industry to develop alternatives to manual inspection. This paper presents AeroX, a novel aerial robotic manipulator that provides physical contact inspection with unprecedented ...
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Aerial Robotic Solution for Detailed Inspection of Viaducts
(MDPI, 2021-09)
The inspection of public infrastructure, such as viaducts and bridges, is crucial for their proper maintenance given the heavy use of many of them. Current inspection techniques are very costly and manual, requiring ...
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Soft-Tentacle Gripper for Pipe Crawling to Inspect Industrial Facilities Using UAVs
(MDPI, 2021-06)
This paper presents a crawling mechanism using a soft-tentacle gripper integrated into an unmanned aerial vehicle for pipe inspection in industrial environments. The objective was to allow the aerial robot to perch and ...
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A benchmark mechatronics platform to assess the inspection around pipes with variable pitch quadrotor for industrial sites
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
This paper investigates the inspection-of-pipe topic in a new framework, by rotation around a pipe, peculiar to industrial sites and refineries. The evolution of the ultimate system requires prototype design and ...