Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process

Nowadays, the inspection of bridges poses a significant challenge for safeguarding critical infrastructures. Recent advancements have seen the integration of robots to replace human personnel in hazardous tasks. These robots, whether operating autonomously or through tel...

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Main Authors: Pierluigi Rea, Erika Ottaviano, Lucia Figuli
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Language:English
Published: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz - Warszawski Instytut Technologiczny 2024-03-01
Series:Technologia i Automatyzacja Montażu
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Online Access:https://journals.prz.edu.pl/tiam/article/view/1661/1271
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description Nowadays, the inspection of bridges poses a significant challenge for safeguarding critical infrastructures. Recent advancements have seen the integration of robots to replace human personnel in hazardous tasks. These robots, whether operating autonomously or through tele-operation, play a crucial role in monitoring structures and infrastructure, ensuring secure access to areas such as manholes on decks and box girder bridges. Specifically designed for environments deemed dangerous, difficult, or inaccessible to humans, ground mobilerobots equipped with appropriate sensors are increasingly deployed for inspection purposes.This paper addresses simulation tests conducted bya hybrid mobilerobot. Its compact design and maneuverability enable it to navigate through obstacles, making it suitable for inspecting railway or highway bridge decks as well as confined spaces within box girder bridges. The study includes a survey of existing bridges highlighting key issues to be addressed and presents simulation results for the hybrid rover. Automatic and robotic systems can play an important role for the control during the bridge assembling process increasingthe reliability of the structure andimprovingits operational propertiesand security.
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spelling doaj-art-82e1753658764a1e97465fffa2c9e09e2025-08-20T03:44:14ZengSieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz - Warszawski Instytut TechnologicznyTechnologia i Automatyzacja Montażu2450-82172024-03-011231303610.7862/tiam.2024.1.5Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly ProcessPierluigi Rea0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0517-394XErika Ottaviano1Lucia Figuli2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-6349Dept. of Mechanical, Chem.and Materials Eng.,University of CagliariDept. of Civil and Mech. Eng., University of CassinoFaculty of Security Engineering, University of ZilinaNowadays, the inspection of bridges poses a significant challenge for safeguarding critical infrastructures. Recent advancements have seen the integration of robots to replace human personnel in hazardous tasks. These robots, whether operating autonomously or through tele-operation, play a crucial role in monitoring structures and infrastructure, ensuring secure access to areas such as manholes on decks and box girder bridges. Specifically designed for environments deemed dangerous, difficult, or inaccessible to humans, ground mobilerobots equipped with appropriate sensors are increasingly deployed for inspection purposes.This paper addresses simulation tests conducted bya hybrid mobilerobot. Its compact design and maneuverability enable it to navigate through obstacles, making it suitable for inspecting railway or highway bridge decks as well as confined spaces within box girder bridges. The study includes a survey of existing bridges highlighting key issues to be addressed and presents simulation results for the hybrid rover. Automatic and robotic systems can play an important role for the control during the bridge assembling process increasingthe reliability of the structure andimprovingits operational propertiesand security.https://journals.prz.edu.pl/tiam/article/view/1661/1271ground mobile robotsbridge inspectionsimulationstructural health monitoring
spellingShingle Pierluigi Rea
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Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process
Technologia i Automatyzacja Montażu
ground mobile robots
bridge inspection
simulation
structural health monitoring
title Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process
title_full Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process
title_fullStr Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process
title_full_unstemmed Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process
title_short Simulation Based Study of Ground Mobile Robots for Inspection and Control of the Bridge Assembly Process
title_sort simulation based study of ground mobile robots for inspection and control of the bridge assembly process
topic ground mobile robots
bridge inspection
simulation
structural health monitoring
url https://journals.prz.edu.pl/tiam/article/view/1661/1271
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