A plant maintenance humanoid robot system

Author

Kawauchi, Naoto ; Shiotani, Shigetoshi ; Kanazawa, Hiroyuki ; Sasaki, Taku ; Tsuji, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Takasago Res. & Dev. Center, Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Ltd., Hyogo, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

14-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

2973

Abstract

In the power plant under operation, there are many important equipments which the operator must inspect in the non-operation state. Our milestone of the humanoid robot which can inspect for the man is moving around the Power Plant and inspection experiments by using navigation system of autonomous and tele-operation fusion control. We constructed and implemented a navigation system, which is controlled by Tag (RF-ID) and Remote teaching human interface. The robot just reads a tag with information on the plant maintenance, and the robot can act with the information. Therefore, switching of the program movement of the robot and the remote control become very easy.

Keywords

computerised navigation; information retrieval; inspection; maintenance engineering; mobile robots; robot programming; telecontrol; user interfaces; autonomous system; humanoid robot; inspection experiments; navigation system; power plant maintenance; radiofrequency identification system; remote control; remote teaching human interface; robot programming; teleoperation fusion control; Centralized control; Control systems; Electrical equipment industry; Humanoid robots; Humans; Industrial control; Inspection; Maintenance; Radio navigation; Shipbuilding industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ICRA '03. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7736-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1242047

Filename

1242047