Mobile robots for offshore inspection and manipulation

@article{Bengel2009MobileRF,
  title={Mobile robots for offshore inspection and manipulation},
  author={Matthias Bengel and Kai Pfeiffer and Birgit Graf and Alexander Bubeck and Alexander W. Verl},
  journal={2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
  year={2009},
  pages={3317-3322}
}
  • Matthias BengelK. Pfeiffer A. Verl
  • Published 10 October 2009
  • Computer Science, Business
  • 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
This paper analyzes the potential to apply mobile service robots in offshore oil and gas producing environments. The required hardware and software components and abilities of such a mobile offshore inspection and manipulation robot are presented in this paper. 
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