Modular Robots for Enabling Operations in Unstructured Extreme Environments

Operations in extreme and hostile environments, such as offshore oil and gas production, nuclear decommissioning, nuclear facility maintenance, deep mining, space exploration, and subsea applications, require the execution of sophisticated tasks. In nuclear environments, robotic systems have advance...

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Published in:Advanced intelligent systems 2022-05, Vol.4 (5), p.n/a
Main Authors: Sayed, Mohammed E., Roberts, Jamie O., Donaldson, Karen, Mahon, Stephen T., Iqbal, Faiz, Li, Boyang, Franco Aixela, Santiago, Mastorakis, Georgios, Jonasson, Emil T., Nemitz, Markus P., Bernardini, Sara, Stokes, Adam A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accident prevention
connect-R
Design
Energy industry
Extreme environments
Failure
industrial robots
Infrastructure
Manufacturing engineering
Modular structures
Modular systems
nuclear decommissioning
Nuclear reactors
Radiation
Radiation effects
Radiation measurement
Robotics
Robots
scaffolding systems
Space exploration
Success
task planning
unstructured environments
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Summary:Operations in extreme and hostile environments, such as offshore oil and gas production, nuclear decommissioning, nuclear facility maintenance, deep mining, space exploration, and subsea applications, require the execution of sophisticated tasks. In nuclear environments, robotic systems have advanced significantly over the past years but still suffer from task failures caused by informational and physical uncertainty of the highly unstructured nature of the environment and exasperated by the time constraints imposed by high radiation levels. Herein, a survey is presented of current robotic systems that can operate in such extreme environments and offer a novel approach to solving the challenges they impose, encapsulated by the mission statement of providing structure in unstructured environments and exemplified by a new self‐assembling modular robotic system, the Connect‐R. Critical infrastructure, as found in the nuclear industry, requires increasing amounts of intervention as the assets approach the end of their design life. Multirobot systems are an ideal solution to the unique challenges found in these environments. Herein current systems are surveyed and the approach of providing structure in unstructured environments, as embodied by the Connect‐R system, is introduced.
ISSN:2640-4567
2640-4567
DOI:10.1002/aisy.202000227