Novel Roaming and Stationary Tethered Aerial Robots for Continuous Mobile Missions in Nuclear Power Plants |
Gu, Beom W.
(Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST)
Choi, Su Y. (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST) Choi, Young Soo (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) Cai, Guowei (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Khalifa University) Seneviratne, Lakmal (Department of Aerospace Engineering, Khalifa University) Rim, Chun T. (Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering, KAIST) |
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