The design of an inspection robot for boiler tubes inspection

2009 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 313-317

  Lu, Xueqin ^a   Qiu, Rongfu ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Huang, Fuzhen ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

Author keywords

Boiler tubes; Climbing robot; Magnetic flux leakage sensor; VSC controller

Indexed keywords

BOILER TUBES; CLIMBING ROBOTS; FOSSIL POWER PLANTS; INSPECTION ALGORITHMS; INSPECTION ROBOTS; MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE SENSOR; MAGNETIC WHEELS; MAGNETIC-FLUX-LEAKAGE SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOILERS; CONTROLLERS; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS; INSPECTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETISM; SENSORS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VEHICLES; WHEELS;

MAGNETIC LEAKAGE;

EID: 77949307876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AICI.2009.333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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