Use of Robotics for Nondestructive Inspection of Steel Highway Bridges andStructures

摘要

This interim report describes the progress during the first year of a project todevelop robotics hardware for nondestructive evaluation of steel structures. The project objectives are to: (1) develop and test an improved prototype (POLECAT-II) crawling robotics systems for nondestructive inspection of highway bridges and structures. The project has produced a new design of a robotic devices called POLECAT-IIM which will be further tested and refined. It will be utilized to guide the evolution of a more dexterous device during the remaining 2.5 year project.