According to various aspects, an automotive inspection robotic vehicle (100) for inspecting a railway track and/or a railway vehicle is described, including: a vehicle main body (102), an onboard driving device (104), an onboard control device (106), one or more onboard sensors (108), and a holding structure (110) including at least two pairs of first and second arms, wherein the first and second arms of each pair are arranged on both sides of and laterally extend away from the vehicle main body to allow, in use, each first arm and each second arm to mechanically interact with the first rail and the second rail, respectively, such that the inspection robotic vehicle is caught between the rails, wherein each first arm and each second arm includes at least one passive deflection mechanism allowing the respective first and second arm to be elastically deflected from an extended condition into a deflected condition.
AUTOMOTIVE INSPECTION ROBOTIC VEHICLE, INSPECTION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING A RAILWAY TRACK AND/OR A RAILWAY VEHICLE
ROBOTISCHES FAHRZEUG ZUR INSPEKTION EINES KRAFTFAHRZEUGS, INSPEKTIONSSYSTEM UND VERFAHREN ZUR INSPEKTION EINES GLEISES UND/ODER EINES SCHIENENFAHRZEUGS
VÉHICULE ROBOTISÉ D'INSPECTION AUTOMOBILE, SYSTÈME D'INSPECTION ET PROCÉDÉ D'INSPECTION D'UNE VOIE FERRÉE ET/OU D'UN VÉHICULE FERROVIAIRE
2024-11-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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