A novel nuclear station inspection robot

Abstract

As a key device in nuclear station, the steam generator is vulnerable to certain kinds of damages, which make it necessary to check the generator annually. However, it is impossible for human to finish the examine because of that the tremendous tubes inside the generator makes its inner space too crowded. In this paper, we introduced a novel designed climbing robot system which is competent to the work. The main part of the robot system is a vehicle which can moves inside the steam generator carrying a PT Arm. Four cameras are installed in the vehicle and PT Arm to send the real time video back for analysis. We built a control panel as the interface for users to control the vehicle and a cabinet as the container of all the processors int the control system. Experiments show that our system works stably inside the steam generator.