A review of robotics in onshore oil-gas industry

2013 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1153-1160

  Shukla, Amit ^a   Karki, Hamad ^a  

^a KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; IN-PIPE INSPECTION ROBOT; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; ONSHORE OIL AND GAS FACILITIES; SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; STATE-OF-ART TECHNOLOGY;

AUTOMATION; GAS INDUSTRY; OIL FIELDS; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

INSPECTION;

EID: 84887923205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2013.6618077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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