A Robot for the Unsupervised Grit-Blasting of Ship Hulls

This paper describes the design and the control architecture of an unsupervised robot developed for grit blasting ship hulls in shipyards. Grit blasting is a very common and environmentally unfriendly operation, required for preparing metallic surfaces for painting operations. It also implies very u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Daniel Souto, Andres Faiña, Alvaro Deibe, Fernando Lopez-Peña, Richard J. Duro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2012-09-01
Series:International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5772/50847