The Project of Tank Inspection Robot

Abstract:

The paper presents the project of tank inspection robot. In order to discuss the designing process, algorithm of design has been provided. There are four design stages: the analysis of the construction problem, the synthesis, testing/improving robots construction and finally testing it. First stage of project process is divided into constructive and imitative analysis. Constructive analysis means searching for still not existing solutions of robots and detection methods. In this paper we concentrate only on constructive analysis.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 518)
• Pages: 375-383
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.518.375
• Online since: July 2012
• Authors: Mariusz Giergiel, Tomasz Buratowski, Piotr Małka, Krzysztof Kurc, Piotr Kohut, Konrad Majkut
• Keywords: Inspection Robot, Mobile Robot, Robot for Diagnostics of Tanks, Robot for Tanks Inspection, Underwater Robot

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