Inspection Robot for Hanger Cable of Suspension Bridge: Mechanism Design and Analysis

Cho, Kyeong Ho; Kim, Ho Moon; Jin, Young Hoon; Liu, Fengyi; Moon, Hyungpil; Koo, Ja Choon; Choi, Hyouk Ryeol

doi:10.1109/tmech.2013.2280653

Cited by 65 publications

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“…Qiao et al (2013) proposed a self-locking mechanism for in-pipe robots to carry out maintenance works inside pipelines. Cho et al (2013) proposed a cable climbing robot for visual inspection of hanger cables in suspension bridges. Aerial vehicles such as quadrotors, miniature helicopter, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) (Zhou et al 2016) have been extensively deployed in structure inspection and monitoring.…”

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Reconfigurable swarm robots for structural health monitoring: a brief review

Jahanshahi

Shen

Mondal

et al. 2017

Int J Intell Robot Appl

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Autonomous monitoring of infrastructure systems offers a promising alternative to manual inspection techniques which are mostly tedious, expensive and prone to error. Robot-based autonomous monitoring systems not only provide higher precision, but they also allow frequent inspection of infrastructure systems at a much lower cost. Recent advancements in robotic systems have led to the development of reconfigurable swarm robots (RSR) that can change their shape and functionality dynamically, without any external intervention. RSR have the advantages of being modular, on-site reconfigurable, multifunctional, incrementally assemble-able, reusable, faulttolerant, and even repairable on the orbit. Newly-developed reconfigurable robots are expected to bring a radical change in the prevailing structural health monitoring techniques, thus augmenting the efficiency, accuracy and affordability of inspection operations. This paper presents a holistic review of the previous studies and state-of-the-art technologies in the field of RSR, and argues that RSR offer great potential advantages from the perspective of monitoring and assessment of civil and mechanical systems. A roadmap for future research has also been outlined based on the limitations of the current methods and anticipated needs of future inspection systems.

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Reconfigurable swarm robots for structural health monitoring: a brief review

Jahanshahi

Shen

Mondal

et al. 2017

Int J Intell Robot Appl

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“…After decades of development, mobile robot technology has been widely used in industry, commerce, agriculture, national defence, space, aviation, tourism, office automation, medical and health care and life services and many other fields. With the continuous progress and development of computer, chip and sensor technology, mobile robot technology has reached new heights again and again [7].…”

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Design and Implementation of Indoor and Outdoor Security Patrol Mobile Robot

Wang¹

2017

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering, Information Science &Amp; Application Technology (ICCI

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Abstract. The purpose of this study is to design a mobile robot prototype solution that can independently perform indoor and outdoor safety inspections. First, according to our project objectives, the hardware platform of mobile robot is designed. Then, the software design and implementation of the patrol robot in outdoor environment is completed. Finally, the system software of autonomous patrol robot in indoor environment is realized. The results show that the system hardware and software of the patrol robot can achieve good operation effect. Therefore, we conclude that patrol robot plays an important role in indoor and outdoor security.

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“…Similar robot from K.H. Cho et al [12] enables effective visual inspection of the cable on suspension bridge. Besides, there were several initial implementations of climbing robots for bridge inspection including steel bridges.…”

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Visual and 3D Mapping for Steel Bridge Inspection Using a Climbing Robot

Pham¹,

La²,

Ha³

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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-There are over six hundred thousand bridges in the U.S. which require great amount of human effort along with expensive and specialized equipment for maintenance. Current bridge inspections are manually performed by inspectors which are inefficient and unsafe. This paper presents visual and three dimensional (3D) structure inspection for steel bridges and steel structures using the developed climbing robot. The robot can move freely on steel surface, carry several sensors, and collect data then send to the ground station for real-time monitoring as well as further processing. Steel surface image stitching and 3D map building are conducted to provide a current condition of the structure.

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Inspection Robot for Hanger Cable of Suspension Bridge: Mechanism Design and Analysis

Cited by 65 publications

References 14 publications

Reconfigurable swarm robots for structural health monitoring: a brief review

Reconfigurable swarm robots for structural health monitoring: a brief review

Design and Implementation of Indoor and Outdoor Security Patrol Mobile Robot

Visual and 3D Mapping for Steel Bridge Inspection Using a Climbing Robot

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