Autonomous mobile robots for ultrasonic NDE

Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 898-901

  Friedrich, Markus ^a   Galbraith, Walter ^a   Hayward, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; AIR-COUPLED; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; C-SCAN IMAGES; CLIMBING ROBOTS; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; HOST COMPUTERS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; INTER VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; LAMB WAVE; LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FLUX LEAKAGE; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; NON-CONTACT ULTRASONIC INSPECTION; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; ROBOTIC VEHICLES; TEST PLATE; ULTRASONIC INSPECTIONS; ULTRASONIC NDE; ULTRASONIC POSITIONING SYSTEMS; WHEEL ENCODERS; WIRELESS LINK;

CRACKS; INSPECTION; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; ROBOTS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; ULTRASONICS; VEHICLES;

EDDY CURRENT TESTING;

EID: 78649337687     PISSN: 10510117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2006.241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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