Robotic impact-acoustics system for tile-wall bonding integrity inspection

Mechatronics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1251-1260

  Luk, B L ^a   Liu, K P ^a   Jiang, Z D ^a,b   Tong, F ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climbing service robot; Impact acoustic; Non destructive evaluation; Wavelets; ZigBee

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; INSPECTION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; ZIGBEE;

BLUETOOTH WIRELESS NETWORKS; CLIMBING SERVICE ROBOTS; IMPACT ACOUSTICS; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION METHODS; POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY; WAVELET PACKET DECOMPOSITIONS; WAVELETS;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION;

EID: 70849118236     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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