Development of inspection robots for bridge cables

HB Yun, SH Kim, L Wu, JJ Lee - The Scientific World Journal, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the bridge cable inspection robot developed in Korea. Two types of the
cable inspection robots were developed for cable‐suspension bridges and cable‐stayed …

Rapid pole climbing with a quadrupedal robot

GC Haynes, A Khripin, G Lynch, J Amory… - … on robotics and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the development of a legged robot designed for general locomotion of
complex terrain but specialized for dynamical, high-speed climbing of a uniformly convex …

OmniClimbers: Omni-directional magnetic wheeled climbing robots for inspection of ferromagnetic structures

M Tavakoli, C Viegas, L Marques, JN Pires… - Robotics and …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper introduces Omniclimber, a new climbing robot with high maneuverability for
inspection of ferromagnetic flat and convex human made structures. In addition to …

[PDF][PDF] Parallel–serial robotic manipulators: a review of architectures, applications, and methods of design and analysis

A Antonov - Machines, 2024 - preprints.org
Parallel-serial (hybrid) manipulators represent robotic systems composed of kinematic
chains with parallel and serial structures. These manipulators combine the benefits of both …

3DCLIMBER: A climbing robot for inspection of 3D human made structures

M Tavakoli, A Marjovi, L Marques… - 2008 IEEE/RSJ …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
3DCLIMBER is a running project in the University of Coimbra for developing a climbing
robot with the capability of manipulating over 3D human-made structures. This paper mainly …

Design of compact switchable magnetic grippers for the HyReCRo structure-climbing robot

A Peidró, M Tavakoli, JM Marín, Ó Reinoso - Mechatronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Steel structures require inspection and maintenance tasks which are too dangerous for
human workers, due to the risk of falling from heights. These tasks can be safely performed …

A deep learning approach to fingerprinting indoor localization solutions

L Xiao, A Behboodi, R Mathar - 2017 27th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fingerprinting Localization Solutions (FPSs) enjoy huge popularity due to their good
performance and minimal environment information requirement. Considered as a data …

3DCLIMBER: Climbing and manipulation over 3D structures

M Tavakoli, L Marques - Mechatronics, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper describes the development of a novel pole climbing robot with the ability of
climbing and manipulating across 3D structures, like petrochemical pipelines. The robot …

Cable inspection robot for cable‐stayed bridges: Design, analysis, and application

F Xu, X Wang, L Wang - Journal of Field Robotics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
As the most important component of cable‐stayed bridges, cable safety has been of crucial
public concern. In this paper, a new robot system for the inspection of stay cables is …

A multidimensional taxonomy for human-robot interaction in construction

PB Rodrigues, R Singh, M Oytun, P Adami… - Automation in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the increased interest in construction robotics both in academia and the industry,
insufficient attention has been given to aspects related to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) …