Development and navigation of a mobile robot for floating production storage and offloading ship hull inspection

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3717-3722

  Menegaldo, Luciano Luporini ^a   Ferreira, Gustavo Andre Nunes ^b   Santos, Melquisedec Francisco ^b   Guerato, Rodrigo Siqueira ^a  

^a MILITARY INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING   (Brazil)

^b Subsin Engineering   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO); Inertial navigation; Mobile robots; Nondestructive inspection; Robot localization; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

FLOATING PRODUCTION STORAGE AND OFFLOADING (FPSO); INERTIAL NAVIGATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SENSOR FUSION;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; HULLS (SHIP); INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSORS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VIDEO CAMERAS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

INSPECTION;

EID: 69349083622     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2025716     Document Type: Article

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