This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of ship hull cleaning
technologies. Various cleaning methods and devices applied to dry-dock cleaning and …

The maintenance of underwater infrastructures and equipment remains dominated by
manual operation, resulting in high costs and safety concerns. Recent advances in …

Climbing on a vertical ship hull underwater while using surface cleaning tools remains a
great challenge for climbing robots. In this study, we design a negative-pressure adsorptive …

Purpose This paper aims to present an underwater climbing robot for wiping off marine life
from steel pipes (eg jackets of oil platforms). The self-adaption mechanism that consists of a …

Using robots to detect Marine structures is very important for maintaining the safety of Marine
structures. This paper presents an underwater inspection robot specifically engineered for …

The universality and effectiveness of underwater adsorption devices still remain challenges
in the application of underwater climbing robots. In this letter, a propeller-driven Bernoulli …

To address the problem of difficulty in removing marine biofouling due to the variable
curvature of the ship wall, this study proposed a marine biofouling removal wall‐climbing …

Traditional underwater climbing robots that use vacuum, thrusters, or magnetism as
adsorption sources have many drawbacks, such as the inability to move on coarse surfaces …

Underwater climbing robots have shown outstanding potential for cleaning underwater
structures. Improvements in robotic intelligence can further facilitate their development in …

During the inspection and maintenance of the underwater part of hydraulic structures, it is
often necessary to clean the surface of a certain area for subsequent operations. At present …