An autonomous self contained wall climbing robot for non-destructive inspection of above-ground storage tanks

Industrial Robot

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 122-127

  Kalra, Love P ^a   Gu, Jason ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motion; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INSPECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SENSORS;

ABOVE GROUND STORAGE TANKS (AST); GLASS BUILDINGS; SURFACE COVERAGE ALGORITHMS; WALL CLIMBING ROBOTS (WCR);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33947161479     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910710727469     Document Type: Article

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