ANYmal in the Field: Solving Industrial Inspection of an Offshore HVDC Platform with a Quadrupedal Robot

Offshore HVDC converter stations for transportation of offshore wind energy to the coast need regular human inspection. Automated surveillance such a platform by mobile robot has high potential improving speed and quality decision-making while reducing operating expenses risk unmanned operation platforms. However, challenging environment platforms prevented operators from making use robots this date. Recent progress in legged robotics resulted systems that are becoming feasible tasks nowadays. For reason, quadrupedal ANYmal was tested on North Sea automated This paper presents results field tests discusses challenges industrial inspection sites.