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 nearly equal to 90 per cent 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.


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    Titel :

    Robotic assistants for aircraft inspectors


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Roboterunterstützung für die Luftfahrzeugwartung


    Beteiligte:
    Siegel, M. (Autor:in) / Gunatilake, P. (Autor:in) / Podnar, G. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    The Industrial Robot ; 25 , 6 ; 389-400


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1998


    Format / Umfang :

    12 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 16 Quellen




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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