Inspection robots for nuclear power plants.

The Robots for Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear energy becomes a major energy source worldwide even though the debating environmental and safety dispute. In order to cope with the issues related to the nuclear power plant, the uncertain human factors need to be minimized by automating the inspection and maintenance work done by human workers. The demands of robotic system in nuclear industry have been growing to ensure the safety of ...

Virtual Reality for Inspection, Maintenance, Operation, and Repair of Nuclear Power Plants (VRIMOR)

Cable-Climbing Robots for Power Transmission Lines Inspection

Power transmission line inspection is of utmost importance for power companies towards having sustainable electricity supply to vast number of customers in major industries as well as households in a city. Inspection provides valuable data from status of the line, thus helps line engineers to plan for necessary repair or replacement works before any major damages which may result in outage. Con...

Robots for Live-power Lines: Maintenance and Inspection Tasks

This paper is focused on the robotic application for electrical live power lines maintenance. These tasks are matters of great significance for utilities companies, since their goal is to achieve a good quality of service. The main features of these works are that: the tasks are carried out over live-lines up to 90 kV; the robots are teleoperated by human operator; and a vehicle to place the ro...

MagneBike: toward multi climbing robots for power plant inspection

An ever-growing infrastructure, including existing and newly built power plants, as well as a rising environmental awareness in society call for inspection and maintenance systems of high efficiency. A solution can be found in the development of mobile agents to provide assistive inspection tools with improved autonomy. In collaboration with industry the MagneBike robot for power plant inspecti...