Development of mobile robot systems for automatic diagnosis of boiler tubes in fossil power plants and large size pipelines

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1880-1885

  Park, Sangdeok ^a   Jeong, Hee Don ^a   Lim, Zhong Soo ^a  

^a Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (RIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; INSPECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; PIPELINES; STEEL PIPE; WATER TUBE BOILERS;

BOILER TUBE; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER; FOSSIL POWER PLANT; IN-PIPE DEFECT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036448880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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