Abstract
Inspection of mooring chains is an important but dangerous and costly procedure covering inspection above and below the waterline. The paper presents initial results from the RIMCAW project which aimed at designing and building an inspection robot able to climb mooring chains and deploy NDT technologies for scanning individual links thereby detecting critical defects. The paper focuses on the design and realisation of the inchworm type novel crawler developed and tested in the TWI Middlesbrough, UK water tank.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Sept 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines CLAWAR 2018 - Duration: 9 Oct 2018 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Climbing and Walking Robots and Support Technologies for Mobile Machines CLAWAR 2018 |
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| Period | 9/10/18 → … |
Keywords
- Stewart Platform
- Mooring chain Climbing Robot
- Inchworm robot
- Mooring chain NDT
- Chain Inspection