SpringWorm: A Soft Crawling Robot with a Large-Range Omnidirectional Deformable Rectangular Spring for Control Rod Drive Mechanism Inspection.
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DOI: 10.1089/soro.2021.0127
Abstract: In this article, a cable-driven elastic backbone worm-like robot (named "SpringWorm") of decimeter-level size is designed, which has high adaptability in crack inspection of the weld between reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and control rod drive… read more here.
Keywords: inspection; rod drive; springworm; backbone ... See more keywords