Development of a climbing robot for inspection of long weld lines

Industrial Robot

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 217-223

  Shang, Jianzhong ^a   Bridge, Bryan ^a   Sattar, Tariq ^a   Mondal, Shyamal ^a   Brenner, Alina ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inspection; Production engineering; Robotics; Welding

Indexed keywords

PERMANENT MAGNETS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE; LARGE FIXED WELDED STRUCTURES; TRANSPORTABLE MANUFACTURING CELLS; WELD LINES;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 42549095013     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910810868534     Document Type: Article

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