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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2009.33.8.849

Development of Patrol Robot System for Thermal Power Plant Facilities  

Park, Joon-Young (한전전력연구원 녹색성장연구소)
Lee, Jae-Kyung (한전전력연구원 녹색성장연구소)
Cho, Byung-Hak (한전전력연구원 녹색성장연구소)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.33, no.8, 2009 , pp. 849-857 More about this Journal
Abstract
To guarantee the safety and reliability of obsolete thermal power plants, on site routine patrol in their facilities has been done by human workers. Due to their poor working environments, however, a patrol robot system has been gradually required instead of the human workers from the viewpoint of the workers' safety and work efficiency. For this purpose, this paper presents a patrol robot, controllers, and its control scheme. Especially, this robot system uses a line tracing algorithm, which uses a vision camera instead of IR sensors, and an RFID system for its patrol operation. We confirmed its effectiveness through experiments.
Keywords
Patrol Robot; Thermal Power Plant; Line Tracing; RFID;
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