Robotic systems for cleaning and inspection of large concrete pipes

2010 1st International Conference on Applied Robotics for the Power Industry, CARPI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Saenz, José ^a   Elkmann, Norbert ^a   Stuerze, Thomas ^a   Kutzner, Sven ^a   Althoff, Heiko ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR FACTORY OPERATION AND AUTOMATION IFF   (Germany)

^b Emschergenossenschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hazardous areas; Image processing; Inspection; Mobile robots; Object recognition; Occupational health and safety; Position measurement; Robots; Surface cleaning

Indexed keywords

CLEANING SYSTEM; CONDUCTING MEDIA; HAZARDOUS AREA; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-PRESSURE WATER; NON DESTRUCTIVE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; OPERATOR INTERFACES; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SENSING TECHNIQUES; SENSOR SYSTEMS;

CONCRETE PIPE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INSPECTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; WASTEWATER;

SURFACE CLEANING;

EID: 78650352339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CARPI.2010.5624448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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