The ARPG, a research group at CU Boulder directed by Prof. Christoffer Heckman, is one of the research groups that have been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete ...

An inspection design method and procedure by which mobile robots can inspect large pipe structures has been demonstrated with the successful inspection of multiple defects on a three-meter long steel ...

The robot subsystem drives the robot along a specified route by accepting velocity and heading commands from a software controller on a laptop, which steers the robot. The robot has an odometry ...

Industrial pipe systems are inaccessible and narrow. The pipes can be vertical and have junctions. Just as challenging, leakage points in the water system must be located, the condition of oil and gas ...

The robots are coming to oil and gas. This message is something we’ve been hearing a lot lately, what with autonomous trucks, piloted by Canada’s Suncor, to automated drilling rigs, robots that ...

Ordinarily, when there's a leak in an underground natural gas pipeline, the affected section of pipe has to be excavated and replaced. Soon, however, a pipe-inspecting and -repairing modular robot may ...

A pipeline repair robot for water depths down to 1,000 meters is being developed by Statoil. The new remotely operated welding machine will undergo testing and final adjustments before being deployed ...

China's space station has successfully completed the in-orbit test of a pipeline inspection robot, marking the first in-orbit experiment of a specialized intravehicular robot conducted on the station, ...