Development of an industrial pipeline inspection robot

Industrial Robot

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-322

  Tavakoli, Mahmoud ^a   Marques, Lino ^a   Almeida, Anbal T De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Inspection; Non destructive testing; Pipelines; Robotics

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING ROBOTS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ELEVATED STRUCTURES; INDUSTRIAL SIZE; MANIPULABILITY; MINIMUM WEIGHT; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; OPTIMAL WORKSPACE; PIPELINE INSPECTION; POWER FAILURE; SERIAL MECHANISM; T JUNCTIONS;

GRIPPERS; INSPECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIPELINES; POLES; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 77951903019     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911011037721     Document Type: Article

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