Once working at heights is dangerous, it is a significant accident. These accidents brought
substantial economic losses and caused a large number of casualties. Therefore, it is …

To ensure the safety of ship navigation, a regular hull inspection is essential, which can
identify affected structures and guide the appropriate maintenance. Traditional hull …

There are two challenges for wall-climbing robots in the maintenance and inspection of
large vertical ferromagnetic structures: the requirement of high load capacity and the curved …

Regular Ship hull maintenance is an essential for sustainability. The maintenance work of
ship hulls that involve human labor suffers from many shortcomings. Maintenance robots …

Failure detection of high facilities always presents a tremendous challenge. Climbing-wall
robot with detection capacity has become a main approach. But owing to their limitations in …

A wide range of dangerous and special tasks have witnessed the applications of wall-
climbing robots, but they still cannot adapt well torough or sloping walls. This paper …

In this article, a mathematical model of a magnetic-wheeled mobile robot (MWMR) used for
wall climbing in some special industrial sites is established, and to realize the precise …

Routine cleaning of the corroded ship hulls in dry dock maintenance guarantees the smooth
operation of the shipping industry. Deploying the autonomous system to remove the …

The operation of a ship in the ocean depends crucially on the quality of routine offshore dry
dock maintenance. Automation by robotics is an efficient solution to address the issues of …

Traditional climbing robots that use vacuum suckers have some technical problems, eg,
inability to climb coarse walls, frictional resistance and abrasion of suckers, and poor …