Scanning aircraft structures using open-architecture robotic crawlers as platforms with NDT boards and sensors

Materials Evaluation

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 361-366

  Bar Cohen, Yoseph ^b   Backes, Paul G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; AIRCRAFT; EDDY CURRENT TESTING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSPECTION; INSTRUMENT TESTING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SERVICE LIFE; ULTRASONIC TESTING;

AUTOMATIC INSPECTION; CRAWLERS; MULTIFUNCTION AUTOMATED CRAWLING SYSTEM; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING INSTRUMENT;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 0032649380     PISSN: 00255327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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