Portable Manipulator Systems for Remote Maintenance at the ORNL Spallation Neutron Source Project
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Early in calendar year 2004, TPG Applied Technology will deliver two manipulator systems to the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for use as remote maintenance systems when the SNS becomes operational in 2006. One of these manipulator systems will be a boom system mounted on a pedestal with a dual-arm dexterous manipulator mounted on the end of the stick. The other manipulator system will be a modified mini excavator with a single-arm dexterous manipulator mounted on the end of the stick. This paper describes in detail the design of the two systems and the remote maintenance tasks for which they are intended. The SNS is an accelerator-based neutron-scattering facility that will provide the world’s most powerful neutron beams for conducting material science research.
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