On the development of an unmanned underwater robotic crawler for operation on subsea flexible risers

2010 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics, RAM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 419-424

  Chatzakos, P ^a   Papadmitriou, V ^a   Psarros, D ^a   Nicholson, Ian ^b   Gan, Tat Hean ^b  

^a Innora Limited   (Greece)

^b TWI LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexirisers; NDT; Radiography; Robotics; Underwater

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; EXTERNAL SURFACES; FLEXIBLE RISERS; FLEXIRISERS; NDT; NON DESTRUCTIVE INSPECTION; OFF SHORE PLATFORMS; OIL INDUSTRIES; ROBOT OPERATIONS; UNDERWATER; UNDERWATER ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; DRILLING PLATFORMS; END EFFECTORS; MARINE RISERS; MECHATRONICS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; RADAR ABSORBING MATERIALS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955669981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMECH.2010.5513156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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