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Robotic assistants for aircraft inspectors

Published:1998-12-01 Issue:6 Volume:25 Page:389-400
ISSN:0143-991X
Container-title:Industrial Robot: An International Journal
language:en
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Author:

Siegel Mel,Gunatilake Priyan,Podnar Gregg

Abstract

Aircraft flight pressurization/depressurization cycling causes the skin to inflate and deflate, stressing it around the rivets that fasten it to the airframe. The resulting strain, exacerbated by corrosion, drives the growth of initially microscopic cracks. To avoid catastrophe, aircraft are inspected periodically for cracks and corrosion. The inspection technology employed is ∼90 percent naked‐eye vision. We have developed and demonstrated robotic deployment of both remote enhanced 3D‐stereoscopic video instrumentation for visual inspection and remote eddy current probes for instrumented inspection. This article describes the aircraft skin inspection application, how robotic deployment may alleviate human performance problems and workplace hazards during inspection, practical robotic deployment systems, their instrumentation packages, and our progress toward developing image enhancement and understanding techniques that could help aircraft inspectors to find cracks, corrosion, and other visually detectable damage.

Publisher

Emerald

Subject

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Computer Science Applications,Control and Systems Engineering

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