Robotics and Sensors Based on Ultrasonic Monitoring Techniques for NDE Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 251
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Interests: automated inspection; automated analysis; photogrammetry
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Dear Colleagues,
The modern world is full of major structural assets that need to be regularly inspected to prevent unscheduled and costly breakdowns or catastrophic failures. Such failures can lead to environmental disaster and the loss of life. Such structures are found in a large range of sectors, including power generation, transportation, national infrastructure and many areas of commercial manufacturing. The industry faces severe challenges inspecting this infrastructure due to the remote and hazardous nature of many of the inspection sites, restricting human nature due to elevated temperature, radiation levels or their physical location which can be offshore, subsea or even extra-terrestrial. Robotic systems that offer high mechanical and electrical robustness, flexibility, reliability and a high degree of autonomy with respect to energy usage are well suited for inspection of many structures and installations. A number of highly specialised commercial robotic systems are available for structural inspection in areas with well-defined geometries. However, they are limited by a requirement for a high degree of manual intervention, a lack of general purpose inspection solutions, and unsophisticated brute-force data acquisition with little to no data interpretation. A step-change in robotic inspection capability is required to meet the industry’s longer term needs.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel robotic designs that improve inspection access, especially in complex industrial environments.
- The use of UAVs for non-destructive testing, especially those that can perform quantitative non-destructive testing (NDT).
- Novel sensors that are well suited to robotic inspection, such as those that do not require coupling or precise placement.
- Systems for precise probe deployment, such as around welds.
- Systems for inspection robot localisation.
- Wireless inspection systems.
- Adaptive inspection strategies.
- Autonomous NDT systems.
- Inspection systems with integrated artificial intelligence.
- Human–machine interfaces for enhanced inspection.
Dr. Gordon Dobie
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- non-destructive testing/non-destructive evaluation
- automated NDT/NDE
- robotic NDE/NDT/inspection
- automated NDE/NDT/inspection
- UAV NDE/NDT/inspection
- remote NDE/NDT/inspection
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