Highly compact robots for inspection of power plants

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Caprari, Gilles ^a   Breitenmoser, Andreas ^a   Fischer, Wolfgang ^a   Hürzeler, Christoph ^a   Tâche, Fabien ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a   Schoeneich, Patrick ^b   Rochat, Frédéric ^b   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Moser, Roland ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Inspection Technologies   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Industrial power system maintenance; Inspection; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; BOILER TUBES; COMPACT ROBOTS; INDUSTRIAL POWER SYSTEMS; ROBOT PROTOTYPES; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEMS; SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM INTEGRATION;

BOILERS; INSPECTION; MAINTENANCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; POWER PLANTS; RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 78650352346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CARPI.2010.5624412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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