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Since 2002, the PI’s group has developed four generations of wall-climbing robots for NDE inspection of civil infrastructure. These robots combine the advantages of aerodynamic attraction and suction to achieve a desirable balance of strong adhesion and high mobility. They don’t require perfect sealing and can thus move on smooth and rough surfaces, such as brick, concrete, stucco, wood, glass, and metal. For example, Rise-Rover uses two drive modules to carry their middle compartment with payload up to 450 N. Ground penetrating radar (GPR)-Rover and Mini GPR-Rover are custom designed to carry a GSSI’s GPR antenna for subsurface defect detection and utility survey on concrete structures such as bridges and tunnels. The robots can also carry other devices such as impact echo and ultrasonic flaw detectors for bridge evaluation. To date, all the robots are remotely controlled to scan concrete surfaces.

This project aims to develop motion control and localization methods to make wall-climbing robots a fully autonomous system with automated inspection process using various NDE devices and sensors, and design innovative mechanisms and tools and integrate them into the robots for maintenance actions.

Presentation Date

03 Aug 2020, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Meeting Name

INSPIRE-UTC 2020 Annual Meeting

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Comments

AS-3

Document Type

Presentation

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

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Autonomous Wall-Climbing Robots for Inspection and Maintenance of Concrete Bridges

Since 2002, the PI’s group has developed four generations of wall-climbing robots for NDE inspection of civil infrastructure. These robots combine the advantages of aerodynamic attraction and suction to achieve a desirable balance of strong adhesion and high mobility. They don’t require perfect sealing and can thus move on smooth and rough surfaces, such as brick, concrete, stucco, wood, glass, and metal. For example, Rise-Rover uses two drive modules to carry their middle compartment with payload up to 450 N. Ground penetrating radar (GPR)-Rover and Mini GPR-Rover are custom designed to carry a GSSI’s GPR antenna for subsurface defect detection and utility survey on concrete structures such as bridges and tunnels. The robots can also carry other devices such as impact echo and ultrasonic flaw detectors for bridge evaluation. To date, all the robots are remotely controlled to scan concrete surfaces.

This project aims to develop motion control and localization methods to make wall-climbing robots a fully autonomous system with automated inspection process using various NDE devices and sensors, and design innovative mechanisms and tools and integrate them into the robots for maintenance actions.