Industrial systems efficiency often can be improved by replacing human subjects with robotics technology. With the virtue of automation couple with robotics, this picture is gradually being visible. Accurate inspection of a product in its all stages of production has become a very crucial part of the packaging industry. Nearly 100% accurate inspection and detection can be achieved by using high...

1 Abstract We describe the design and control of ROBIN a ROBotic INspector. ROBIN is a structure-climbing robot designed for man-made environments. It is intended to carry cameras and other sensors onto man-made structures such as bridges, buildings, aircraft and ships for inspection. The robot has two vacuum xtures connected by a 4 degree-of-freedom articulated mechanism that together allow it...

This paper describes development of a three somites earthworm type mobile inspection robot which is able to move in long pipes. We have many small diameter pipes which are gas or water pipes for individual or corporate houses and boilers or hot water pipes for industries. They are settled in the ground horizontally or in the narrow spaces vertically and some of them are covered by casings or ha...

Up to 20 percent of the German sewerage systems are damaged mainly due to their high age. The estimation for the restoration costs is about 100 billions DM. As a consequence the German Government has issued comparably harsh environmental laws enforcing the owner of a sewerage system to check regularity its state by means of suitable inspection technology. However, at the present state of the ar...

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has signed an MoU with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) for design and development of automated boiler tube inspection system for vertical water wall tubes. A vertical climbing robot has been developed for this purpose at Division of Remote Handling & Robotics (DRHR), BARC. Recently, an Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (EMAT) has been integrated ...