The Scientific and Educational Center "Russian Arctic" in Arkhangelsk has developed a robot for measuring the internal diameters of pipes and monitoring the condition of their surfaces, TASS quoted Marat Yeseev, a scientific director of the center and a Deputy First Vice-rector for Promising Projects of the Northern Arctic Federal University, as saying.
The robot is equipped with wheels on telescopic "legs" that adjust to the diameter of the pipe. The device is equipped with video cameras and laser rangefinders. Information is transmitted via Wi-Fi to the information processing center, where it creates a 3D model of the internal space in which the robot is located.
The device will be in demand, for example, in shipbuilding and ship repair, where there are many cylindrical parts of equipment. The prototype is made for pipes up to 30 cm in diameter, but robots can be made for other sizes of structures.
"The task was to make a device that will be used by many enterprises, that is, a whole series of such measuring robots," Evseev said.
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