The economical benefits of applying risk-based inspection planning (RBI) for offshore structures subject to fatigue are evaluated based on experiences from past industrial projects. To this end, the factors influencing the cost of inspection, repair and failure of structures are discussed and realistic values of these costs are presented. These are then applied to assess the expected costs from...

Path planning is indispensable in performing the inspection task using continuum robot in the environment like aircraft fuel tank. In order to obtain the optimal path and make it feasible for the robot traversal, a path planning strategy based on region division is put forward. The aircraft fuel tank is divided into several regions and mapped to a two-dimension plane by using dimension reductio...

| Quality and process control activities in a mechanical product's life cycle require that components be measured, or dimensionally inspected. Computer-controlled dimensional inspection is typically performed with Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), which are very precise Cartesian robots that use touch probes to measure the coordinates of points on a workpiece's surfaces. Automatic planning ...