Citation
(2010), "Web sites", Industrial Robot, Vol. 37 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2010.04937eag.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Web sites
Article Type: Web sites From: Industrial Robot: An International Journal, Volume 37, Issue 5
Centre for Automated and Robotic Non-destructive Testing
www.lsbu.ac.uk/esbe/ndt/index.htm
This is the homepage for London South Bank University’s Centre for Automated and Robotic Non-destructive Testing. The centre, established in 1992, is one of the world leaders in the use of inspection robotics in non-destructive testing (NDT).
The homepage provides links to eight of its inspection robots in the following application areas: critical infrastructure on offshore oil platforms, nuclear power plants, petrochemical storage tanks, wind turbine blades, aircraft, and buildings. Other links feature information on the team, publications and awards.
This is a very interesting web site and visitors would most likely want to see updated information as well as more detail, specs, and perhaps even videos on these unique NDT robots.
Alstom Inspection Robotics
Alstom Inspection Robotics is a joint venture between ALSTOM (Switzerland) Ltd and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, which develops autonomous inspection robots for power plants and chemical and petrochemical facilities.
The web site contains an overview of: the company; its innovation/engineering; its three industries of power generation, transportation and oil and gas; services; and products, which include its Mobile Robotic System (MRS) Series. There is also a link to news and a search key for news archives as well as for the entire site.
JPL’s Non-destructive Evaluation and Advanced Actuators Technologies Lab
The Non-destructive Evaluation and Advanced Actuators Technologies Lab (NDEAA) is a part of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Advanced Technologies Group. The NDEAA Lab is involved with innovative research and development on novel actuators (mostly using electroactive ceramics and polymers), transducers, sensors, robotic mechanisms and NDE methods for space applications and technology transfer to other fields.
NDEAA’s webhub is an excellent resource for NDE advanced actuators, with links to web sites that include JPL’s NDE Lab, JPL’s Advanced Actuators Lab, NDEAA Technologies published articles, and JPL’s NDEAA database.
Cybernetix
This is the corporate web site for Cybernetix, a world leader in robotics and automation solutions for interventions in hostile environments.
The homepage features the latest news and a site search key, and links with comprehensive information to Cybernetix’s four business units: nuclear, oil and gas, defence and industry. The business industry unit which designs, manufactures, commissions and maintains equipment for NDT based on X-ray, vision, measurement and automation, was recently transferred to a subsidiary called CyXplus.
FlexiRiserTest
FlexiRiserTest is a collaboration between EU companies and research organisations to develop the world’s first underwater digital radiographic NDT method for the reliable, volumetric inspection of sub sea flexible risers.
The web site contains detailed information on the project which include pages on the FlexiRiserTest’s: executive summary, the concept, current inspection methods, state-of-the-art, technical objectives, work plan, the system, the underwater DR system, the robot crawler, results, the demonstration and the project end summary.
There are additional links on partners; publications; and news and events.
Though there are various pictures and graphs throughout the site, perhaps including a video demonstration of the project would be very beneficial to the site visitors and members.