Intelligent inspection robots.

On The In-pipe Inspection Robots Traversing Through Elbows

A general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. The robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. The curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. To study the adapt...

Intelligent Robots

Engineering Robust Intelligent Robots

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenge of engineering robust intelligent robots. Robust intelligent robots may be considered as ones that not only work in one environment but rather in all types of situations and conditions. Our past work has described sensors for intelligent robots that permit adaptation to changes in the environment. We have also described the combination of th...

Applying Energy Autonomous Robots for Dike Inspection

This article presents an exploratory study of an energy-autonomous robot that can be deployed on the Dutch dykes. Based on theory in energy harvesting from sun and wind and the energy-cost of locomotion an analytic expression to determine the feasible daily operational time of such a vehicle is composed. The parameters in this expression are identified using lab results and weather statistics. ...

Novelty-Based Visual Inspection Using Mobile Robots

In this paper we present a novelty detection mechanism in which a mobile robot learns a model for its environment through visual exploration. Once the learning process is finished, the robot can be used to inspect the environment and highlight stimuli that do not fit the acquired model of normality. Experimental results from a visual inspection task involving the detection of arbitrary objects ...