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Title: Wall-Sticking Drone for Non-Destructive Inspection of Oblique Planes
Authors: Zhou, Menglong
An, Zhi
Chong, Nak Young
Keywords: UAV
wall-sticking drone
non-destructive testing
magnetic gripper
landing gear system
Issue Date: 2024-08-19
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Magazine name: The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (IEEE ICMA 2024)
Start page: 1741
End page: 1746
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA61710.2024.10632995
Abstract: This paper discusses the preliminary design and analysis of a light-duty unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for remote inspection operations. Due to limitations in payload capacity and energy supply, small drones are often employed in distant visual inspection tasks. We propose a novel UAV landing gear system for non-destructive testing operations on carbon steel spherical storage tanks. The landing gear system employs a servo motor as the power source. It utilizes a combination of slider crank and gear mechanisms for controlling the orientation of the magnetic grippers, enabling adhesion in conjunction with UAV flight. Additionally, the system incorporates a cost-effective and lightweight switchable magnetic adhesion method based on neodymium magnets and silicon steel sheets to reduce weight, which can provide 37.72N per unit. The system’s total weight is approximately 1.6kg, with a payload capacity of 400g. The proposed prototype design has sufficient payload capacity to carry standard non-destructive testing probes, such as ultrasonic and electromagnetic, supported by empirical evidence obtained through our in-house experiments.
Rights: This is the author's version of the work. Copyright (C) 2024 IEEE. The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (IEEE ICMA 2024), Tianjin, China, 1741-1746. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA61710.2024.10632995. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/19339
Material Type: author
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