Title :
Teleoperated Visual Inspection System for Hull Spot-Blasting
Author :
Navarro, Pedro ; Suardiaz, Juan ; Alcover, Pedro ; Borraz, Raul ; Mateo, Antonio ; Iborra, Andres
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politecnica de Cartagena
Abstract :
This paper presents a robotized teleoperated visual inspection system for spot-blasting applied to hull cleaning in ship maintenance tasks. It consists of a cleaning head, a robot body, a remote control unit, and a teleoperation platform connected to a computer vision system. This solution allows a reliable and cost effective operation for hull grit spot-blasting. A prototype of this robot has been developed and tested in the Spanish IZAR shipyards
Keywords :
automatic optical inspection; computer vision; industrial robots; maintenance engineering; ships; telerobotics; Spanish IZAR shipyards; cleaning head; computer vision system; hull cleaning; hull spot-blasting; remote control unit; robot body; ship maintenance tasks; teleoperated visual inspection system; Cleaning; Computer vision; Control systems; Costs; Inspection; Maintenance; Marine vehicles; Prototypes; Robot vision systems; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006 - 32nd Annual Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0390-1
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2006.348082
