A Biologically Inspired Cable Climbing Robot: CCRobot - Design and Implementation

Zheng, Zhenliang; Hu, Sufeng; Ding, Ning

doi:10.1109/robio.2018.8665180

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“…The RABIT platform is equipped with four Wenner-type ER probes; two outer probes generate an electrical current and the two inner probes measure the intensity of electrical field, which is used to calculate the electrical resistivity [79]. Another type of electrical sensor was used by the steel climbing robot, namely the Eddy current sensor [53,100,101], which is used to measure the level of corrosion, rust and crack within the steel structures of bridges.…”

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“…In recent decades, there has been an increased focus towards the development and usage of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous robots for the NDE and SHM of civil infrastructures in general and bridges in particular. A wide array of diverse robots have been developed ranging from climbing robots (e.g., legged robots, wheel-based sliding robots and crawler robots) [ 38 , 39 , 40 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 ], and multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (e.g., quad-rotors and octo-rotors) [ 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 ] to unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) (e.g., advanced robotics and automation (ARA) lab robot, robotic crack inspection and mapping (ROCIM) , robotics-assisted bridge inspection tool (RABIT)) [ 45 , 47 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 ] and water-based robotic crafts (e.g., unmanned submersible vehicles (USVs), underwater marine vehicles (UMVs), underwater vehicles (UUVs)) [ 41 , 42 , 80 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A number of different robot platforms are designed for inspection activities for specific types of bridges (e.g., cantilever, arch, suspension, truss, cable-stayed, beam, girder and tied-arch bridges) [ 38 , 39 , 40 , 46 , 48 , 49 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 55 , 56 , 58 , 59 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 73 , 87 ]. In order to provide some level of insight regarding the different robotic solutions for bridge inspection, the proceeding discussion will focus on the taxonomy provided in Figure 6 , namely: (i) ground robots, (ii) aerial robots, and (iii) marine robots.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many bridges are equipped with cables to provide support and load balancing across the different parts of the bridge. To provide the automatic maintenance and inspection of these parts of the bridges, a considerable amount of studies focuses towards the mechanical design and development of different cable climbing robots [ 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 63 , 64 ]. The use of bipedal and quadruped legged robots has also been proposed for the inspection of civil infrastructures in general and the vertical structures of bridges in particular [ 87 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…legged robots, wheel-based sliding robots and crawler robots) [38][39][40][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62], and multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (e.g., quad-rotors and octo-rotors) [63][64][65][66][67][68][69] to unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) (e.g., advanced robotics and automation (ARA) lab robot, robotic crack inspection and mapping (ROCIM), robotics-assisted bridge inspection tool (RABIT)) [45,47,[70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78][79] and water-based robotic crafts (e.g., unmanned submersible vehicles (USVs), underwater marine vehicles (UMVs), underwater vehicles (UUVs)) [41,42,80]. Some of the recent studies have also focused towards developing hybrid robotic frameworks (e.g., wall-climbing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots capable of flying and crawling and other multi-rotor flying robots capable of latching on to specific parts of infrastructure that require inspection), which are able to provide multi-functional roles and capabilities for the different types of inspection activities [43,…”

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Review of Non-Destructive Civil Infrastructure Evaluation for Bridges: State-of-the-Art Robotic Platforms, Sensors and Algorithms

Ahmed

Gucunski

2020

Sensors

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The non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of civil infrastructure has been an active area of research in recent decades. The traditional inspection of civil infrastructure mostly relies on visual inspection using human inspectors. To facilitate this process, different sensors for data collection and techniques for data analyses have been used to effectively carry out this task in an automated fashion. This review-based study will examine some of the recent developments in the field of autonomous robotic platforms for NDE and the structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridges. Some of the salient features of this review-based study will be discussed in the light of the existing surveys and reviews that have been published in the recent past, which will enable the clarification regarding the novelty of the present review-based study. The review methodology will be discussed in sufficient depth, which will provide insights regarding some of the primary aspects of the review methodology followed by this review-based study. In order to provide an in-depth examination of the state-of-the-art, the current research will examine the three major research streams. The first stream relates to technological robotic platforms developed for NDE of bridges. The second stream of literature examines myriad sensors used for the development of robotic platforms for the NDE of bridges. The third stream of literature highlights different algorithms for the surface- and sub-surface-level analysis of bridges that have been developed by studies in the past. A number of challenges towards the development of robotic platforms have also been discussed.

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