Development of a Multi-robotic System for Exploration of Biomass Power Plants
Title: Development of a Multi-robotic System for Exploration of Biomass Power Plants
Authors: Sihai An (Robotics for Extreme Environments Lab, The University of Manchester); Farshad Arvin (Robotics for Extreme Environments Lab, The University of Manchester); Simon Watson (Robotics for Extreme Environments Lab, The University of Manchester); Barry Lennox (Robotics for Extreme Environments Lab, The University of Manchester);
Year: 2019
Citation: An, S., Arvin, F., Watson, S., Lennox, B., (2019). Development of a Multi-robotic System for Exploration of Biomass Power Plants. UK-RAS19 Conference: “Embedded Intelligence: Enabling & Supporting RAS Technologies” Proceedings, 56-59. doi: 10.31256/UKRAS19.15
Abstract:
Biomass Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (BIGCC) is a power generation technology which has been vastly used in past years. Maintaining those power plants are very crucial due to having various risk of hazards. In order to increase workers safety and reduce property losses, common faults which are reported in BIGCC based power plants were investigated in this paper. Also, a fault detection methods using multi-robot system was proposed. Therefore, autonomous group of robots were used for achieving continuous inspection in BIGCC power plants. The inspection scenario and implementation of the proposed scenario were conducted with simulation software, V- rep. Two types of mobile robots, ground and flying robots, have been deployed.