Review of robot-based damage assessment for offshore wind turbines

Y Liu, M Hajj, Y Bao - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Offshore wind turbines are subjected to highly-varying dynamic loadings and accelerated
material degradation, resulting in the need for structural health monitoring, which increases …

[HTML][HTML] A review: Challenges and opportunities for artificial intelligence and robotics in the offshore wind sector

D Mitchell, J Blanche, S Harper, T Lim, R Gupta, O Zaki… - Energy and AI, 2022 - Elsevier
The UK has set plans to increase offshore wind capacity from 22GW to 154GW by 2030.
With such tremendous growth, the sector is now looking to Robotics and Artificial …

Paired ensemble and group knowledge measurement for health evaluation of wind turbine gearbox under compound fault scenarios

W Jiang, J Wu, H Zhu, X Li, L Gao - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
To simultaneously identify the specific single or compound faults and evaluate the health
condition of wind turbine gearbox accurately, a novel health evaluation method is proposed …

Developing a climbing robot for repairing cables of cable-stayed bridges

F Xu, S Dai, Q Jiang, X Wang - Automation in Construction, 2021 - Elsevier
It is difficult to test and maintain the cables on a cable-stayed bridge. Cable detection and
repair remain mainly manual operations and automatic maintenance is rare. Aiming at the …

Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends

O Khalid, G Hao, C Desmond, H Macdonald… - Wind …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine operations required to transfer technicians and equipment represent a significant
proportion of the total cost of offshore wind. The profile of sites being considered for floating …

Symbiotic system of systems design for safe and resilient autonomous robotics in offshore wind farms

D Mitchell, J Blanche, O Zaki, J Roe, L Kong… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To reduce Operation and Maintenance (O&M) expenditure on offshore wind farms, wherein
80% of the cost relates to deploying personnel, the offshore wind sector looks to advances in …

Induction infrared thermography and thermal-wave-radar analysis for imaging inspection and diagnosis of blade composites

R Yang, Y He, A Mandelis, N Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Condition monitoring, nondestructive testing, and fault diagnosis are currently considered
crucial processes for on-condition maintenance (OCM) to increase the reliability and …

Progress and trends in fault diagnosis for renewable and sustainable energy system based on infrared thermography: A review

B Du, Y He, Y He, C Zhang - Infrared Physics & Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Renewable and sustainable energy (RSE) system has a significant potential to mitigate
carbon emissions and diversify the electricity generation portfolios acknowledged by …

[HTML][HTML] Remote Wind Turbine Inspections: Exploring the Potential of Multimodal Drones

A Omara, A Nasser, A Alsayed, MRA Nabawy - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
With the ever-increasing demand for harvesting wind energy, the inspection of its associated
infrastructures, particularly turbines, has become essential to ensure continued and …

Analysis of mechanical adhesion climbing robot design for wind tower inspection

SC Mondal, PLC Marquez… - Journal of Artificial …, 2021 - ojs.istp-press.com
Maintenance of wind turbine farms is a huge task, with associated significant risks and
potential hazard to the safety and well-being of people who are responsible for carrying the …