MiRoR - Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Holistic In-Situ Repair and Maintenance Works in Restrained and Hazardous Environments

Dragos Axinte; Xin Dong; David Palmer; Adam Rushworth; Salvador C. Guzman; Aitor Olarra; Iñigo Arizaga; Eneko Gomez-Acedo; Kristine Txoperena; Kai Pfeiffer; Felix Messmer; Matthias Gruhler; James Kell

doi:10.1109/TMECH.2018.2800285

MiRoR - Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Holistic In-Situ Repair and Maintenance Works in Restrained and Hazardous Environments

Dragos Axinte, Xin Dong, David Palmer, Adam Rushworth, Salvador C. Guzman, Aitor Olarra, Iñigo Arizaga, Eneko Gomez-Acedo, Kristine Txoperena, Kai Pfeiffer, Felix Messmer, Matthias Gruhler, James Kell

Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering

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Abstract

This letter presents the novel concept of a miniaturized robotized machine tool, Mini-RoboMach, consisting of a walking hexapod robot and a Slender Continuum Arm. By combining the mobility of the walking robot with the positioning accuracy of the machine tool, with its 24 + 25 degrees of freedom, camera-based calibration system, laser scanner, and two end-effectors of opposed orientations, the proposed system can provide a versatile tool for in-situ work (e.g., repair) in hazardous/unreachable locations in large installations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	978-981
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
Volume	23
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2018.2800285
Publication status	Published - Apr 2018

Keywords

Continuum robot
in-situ inspection/maintenance
multiaxis manipulation of end-effectors
navigation
robotized machine tool
walking hexapod

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Axinte, D., Dong, X., Palmer, D., Rushworth, A., Guzman, S. C., Olarra, A., Arizaga, I., Gomez-Acedo, E., Txoperena, K., Pfeiffer, K., Messmer, F., Gruhler, M., & Kell, J. (2018). MiRoR - Miniaturized Robotic Systems for Holistic In-Situ Repair and Maintenance Works in Restrained and Hazardous Environments. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 23(2), 978-981. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2018.2800285

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