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Wireless Communication with Mobile Inspection Robots Operating While Submerged Inside Oil Storage Tanks Open

Nzebo Richard Anvo, Aman Kaur, Tariq Sattar · 2021

Data acquisition during storage tank inspection is one of the most important aspects for petrochemical storage tank owners. Mobile inspection robots designed to enter inside a storage tanks without taking the tank out of service are requir…

Development of innovative automated solutions for the assembly of multifunctional thermoplastic composite fuselage Open

Sadik Omairey, Sofia Sampethai, Luka Hans, Chris Worrall, Stuart Lewis , et al. · 2021

In this study, the development of innovative tooling and end-effector systems for the assembly of a multifunctional thermoplastic fuselage is presented. The increasing demand for cleaner and new aircraft requires utilising novel materials …

Development of a Robot for In-service Radiography Inspection of Subsea Flexible Risers Open

Aman Kaur, Tariq Sattar, Nzebo Richard Anvo, M. O. Tokhi · 2021

The extreme operational environmental conditions and aging conditions of subsea structures pose a risk to their structural integrity and is critical to their safety. Nondestructive testing is essential to identify defects developing within…

An Autonomous Wall Climbing Robot for Inspection of Reinforced Concrete Structures: SIRCAUR Open

Gabriela Gallegos Garrido, Tariq Sattar · 2021

A wall climbing inspection robot has been designed to climb on safety critical concrete structures by adhering to reinforcement steel bars (rebars) using permanent magnets to generate the adhesion forces. Simulation and experimental valida…

INVESTIGATIONS ON THE EFFECT OF WALL THICKNESS ON MAGNETIC ADHESION FOR WALL CLIMBING ROBOTS Open

Jaise Jose, Dinakaran Devaraj, Ramya Manthanam Mathanagopal, Kuppan Chetty Ramanathan, M. O. Tokhi , et al. · 2021

The focus of this work is to investigate the adhesion characteristics of a permanent magnet arrangement over ferromagnetic surfaces for wall climbing robot applications. The changes in wall thickness affect the adhesion characteristics of …

SIRCAUR: Safe inspection of reinforced concrete structures by autonomous robot Open

Gabriela Gallegos Garrido, Mahesh Dissanayake, Tariq Sattar, Angelos Plastropoulos, Hashim Muntasir · 2020

Designing climbing robots for industrial applications, has been proven to be an egg and chicken problem.The more the payload the more adhesion force needed.In order to move a robot upwards with such a force, motors with bigger torque are r…

Design and parametric investigations of permanent magnet adhesion mechanism for robots climbing on reinforced concrete walls Open

G. Vijaya, Narasimha Rao Mekala, Tula Sridath, Manju Mohan, Kuppan Chetty Ramanathan , et al. · 2020

Wall Climbing Robots (WCRs) have found extensive applications in the past decade in numerous engineering fields, however, the design of efficient adhesion mechanism for robots climbing on concrete surfaces remains a challenge and attracts …

Sircaur: Safe Inspection Of Reinforced Concrete Structures By Autonomous Robot Open

Gabriela Gallegos Garrido, D. Dissanayake, Tariq Sattar, Angelos Plastropoulos, Mohd Hisbany Mohd Hashim · 2020

Designing climbing robots for industrial applications, has been proven to be an egg and chicken problem. The more the payload the more adhesion force needed. In order to move a robot upwards with such a force, motors with bigger torque are…

Identification of fatigue damage evaluation using entropy of acoustic emission waveform Open

Farhan Tanvir, Tariq Sattar, David Mba, Graham Edwards · 2019

Acoustic emission (AE) is a passive nondestructive testing (NDT) technique which is employed to identify critical damage in structures before failure can occur. Currently, AE monitoring is carried out by calculating the features of the sig…

Validation of Acoustic Emission Waveform Entropy as a Damage Identification Feature Open

Farhan Tanvir Santo, Tariq Sattar, Graham Edwards · 2019

The increase in the market for supersized LNG (liquefied natural gas) vessels, with double wall cargo tanks, has led to concerns regarding their safe operation. If both the primary and secondary wall of the cargo tank fail simultaneously, …

Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition "Robot Detectives: Sherlock Holmes meets Spiderman" Open

Tariq Sattar · 2019

The Royal Society celebrated its 350th anniversary with a Summer Science Exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall, London. The Robot Detectives exhibit was one of 22 exhibits selected for the exhibition. It featured our wall climbing robots t…

Robot Detectives: Sherlock Homes meets Spiderman Open

Tariq Sattar · 2019

The exhibit was invited by the Royal Academy of Engineering to front its zone at the BigBang event held at the ICC Excel Centre in London. Seven wall climbing and pipe climbing robots were exhibited at the stand titled " Robot Detectives: …

Adaptable legged-magnetic adhesion tracked wheel robotic platform for misaligned mooring chain climbing and inspection Open

Mahesh Dissanayake, Tariq Sattar, Premesh Shehan Lowe, Ivan Pinson, Tat‐Hean Gan · 2018

Purpose Mooring chains used to stabilise offshore floating platforms are often subjected to harsh environmental conditions on a daily basis, i.e. high tidal waves, storms, etc. Therefore, the integrity assessment of chain links is vital, a…

Towards safe inspection of long weld lines on ship hulls using an autonomous robot Open

Gabriela Gallegos Garrido, Tariq Sattar, Michael Corsar, Richard James, D. Seghier · 2018

Inspection of ship-hull welds must be carried out in accordance with classification society guidelines during manufacture and when in service. Failure of ship-hull welds can result in the loss of a vessel, loss of life and pollution of the…

Mooring chain climbing robot for NDT inspection applications Open

M Kimball, Artur Gmerek, Peter Collins, Andrew Wheatley, Kiran Shah , et al. · 2018

Inspection of mooring chains is an important but dangerous and costly procedure covering inspection above and below the waterline. The paper presents initial results from the RIMCAW project which aimed at designing and building an inspecti…

Indoor localization of mobile robots with wireless sensor network based on ultra wideband using experimental measurements of time difference of arrival Open

Abdoulaye Ousmane, Tariq Sattar, M. O. Tokhi · 2018

This paper presents investigations into wireless localization techniques for mobile robots operating in indoor environments. Localization systems can guide robots to perform \ndifferent tasks such as monitoring children or elderly people, …

RiserSure: Automated Deployment of Digital Radiography for Subsea Inspection of Flexible Risers Open

Aman Kaur, Bin Ma, Michael Corsar, Tariq Sattar, Alan L. Clarke , et al. · 2018

Flexible pipes, are used as risers to carry oil and gas from sub-sea wells to Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessels. Due to the harsh nature of the environment flexible risers are subject to fatigue over their 10 to 30 year li…

Digital Radiography Inspection of Flexible Risers in Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Open

E Cheilakou, N Tsopelas, T Brashaw, Athanasios Anastasopoulos, I. A. Nicholson , et al. · 2018

This paper presents the development of a digital radiography-based system for sub-sea applications that is being implemented within the context of a H2020 EU funded project called "RiserSure". The system is capable of performing semi-autom…

Non-destructive Testing Robots (NDTBOTs) for In-Service Storage Tank Inspection Open

Nzebo Richard Anvo, Tariq Sattar, Tat‐Hean Gan, Ivan Pinson · 2018

Petrochemical storage tanks are generally inspected when the tank is offline mostly to assess the extent of underside corrosion on the tank floor. Emptying, cleaning and opening a tank for inspection takes many months and is very expensive…

Identification of fatigue damage evolution in 316L stainless steel using acoustic emission and digital image correlation Open

Farhan Tanvir, Tariq Sattar, David Mba, Graham Edwards, Elvin Eren , et al. · 2018

One of the main objectives of Acoustic Emission (AE) monitoring is to identify approaching critical stage of damage in the structure before it fails. State-of-the-art AE analysis is done on the features in both the time and frequency domai…

Automated Application of Full Matrix Capture to Assess the Structural Integrity of Mooring Chains Open

Mahesh Dissanayake, David Carswell, Michael Corsar, Tariq Sattar, Mark Sutcliffe , et al. · 2018

In-service mooring chains are subjected to harsh environmental conditions on a daily basis, which increases the necessity of integrity assessment of chain links. Periodic structural health monitoring of mooring chains is mandatory and vita…

Analyzing Integrated Renewable Energy and Smart-Grid Systems to Improve Voltage Quality and Harmonic Distortion Losses at Electric-Vehicle Charging Stations Open

Asif Khan, Saim Memon, Tariq Sattar · 2018

Increasing the use of Electric-Vehicles (EV) is regarded as a step in the right direction to reduce air-pollution and carbon emissions. However, a dramatic increase of EV and charging stations has raised voltage quality and harmonic distor…

Reciprocating compressor prognostics of an instantaneous failure mode utilising temperature only measurements Open

Panagiotis Loukopoulos, George Zolkiewski, I.J. Bennett, Suresh Sampath, Pericles Pilidis , et al. · 2017

Tracked-wheel crawler robot for vertically aligned mooring chain climbing design, simulation and validation of a climbing robot for mooring chains Open

Mahesh Dissanayake, Tariq Sattar, OMAR FARUQ HOWLADER, Ivan Pinson, Tat‐Hean Gan · 2017

Only a few attempts have been made to investigate the possibilities of developing chain climbing robot due to the complexity of the structure and physical nature of chain links. Mooring chains are subjected to large tidal waves, harsh envi…

Non-Destructive Testing Robot Applications in Hazardous Environments Open

Tariq Sattar · 2017

Reliable NDT is vital to the integrity, performance management and sustainability of capital assets in safety critical industries such as oil and gas aerospace, transportation, power generation and offshore and subsea operations. the prese…

CLIMBING ROBOTS FOR NDT APPLICATIONS Open

MOHAMMED AL RASHED, MATTHEW KIMBALL, Luis Vega, DAVID VERA, JOSE SOLER , et al. · 2017

A variety of automated solutions for non-destructive testing have been developed to facilitate in-situ sensing for inspection requirements to ensure safety and effective operation in a variety of hazardous application scenarios. The paper …

MONITORING SAFETY CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE WITH MOBILE ROBOTS Open

Tariq Sattar · 2017

Reliable Non Destructive Testing (NDT) is vital to the integrity and performance management of capital assets in safety critical industries such as aerospace, transportation, pipelines, petro-chemical processing, and power generation [ ]. …

Robotics for Inspection and Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plant Open

Tariq Sattar · 2017

Describes robots developed by the London South Bank Innovation Centre to: 1.Inspect Pressure Vessel shell and nozzle welds 2.Inspect nozzle welds in the primary circuit of nuclear power plant 3.Inspect radiation cells, stacks, buildings 4.…

Safeguarding Safety Critical Infrastructure with Mobile Robot Inspectors , Opportunities and Challenges Open

Tariq Sattar · 2016

Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure with Robotic Inspection, Opportunities and Challenges Reliable Non Destructive Testing (NDT) is vital to the integrity, performance management and sustainability of capital assets in safety critical ind…

MINIATURIZATION OF DIPOLE ANTENNA FOR LOW FREQUENCY GROUND PENETRATING RADAR Open

Md Omar Faruq Howlader, Tariq Sattar · 2016

© 2016, Electromagnetics Academy. All rights reserved.In this paper, a miniaturized dipole antenna operating at 100MHz frequency for Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) application is presented. A conventional dipole antenna length is half of i…

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