Design and Control of MIRA: A Lightweight Climbing Robot for Ship Inspection

Ahmed, Mohammed; Eich, Markus; Bernhard, Felix

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Design and Control of MIRA: A Lightweight Climbing Robot for Ship Inspection

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Abstract:

The inspection of marine vessels is currently per-formed manually. Inspectors use tools (e.g. cameras and devices for non-destructive testing) to detect damaged areas, cracks, and corrosion in large cargo holds, tanks, and other parts of a ship. Due to the size and complex geometry of most ships, ship inspection is time-consuming and expensive. The EU-funded project INCASS develops concepts for a marine inspection robotic assistant system to improve and automate ship inspections. In this paper, we introduce our magnetic wall–climbing robot: Marine Inspection Robotic Assistant (MIRA). This semi-autonomous lightweight system is able to climb a vessels steel frame to deliver on-line visual inspection data. In addition, we describe the design of the robot and its building subsystems as well as its hardware and software components.

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Periodical:

International Letters of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy (Volume 55)

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128-135

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILCPA.55.128

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M. Ahmed et al., "Design and Control of MIRA: A Lightweight Climbing Robot for Ship Inspection", International Letters of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Vol. 55, pp. 128-135, 2015

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July 2015

Authors:

Mohammed Ahmed, Markus Eich, Felix Bernhard

Keywords:

Magnetic Crawlers, Maritime Robotics, Wheeled Robots

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