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 …

Real-time systems are widely used in industry, including technological process control
systems, industrial automation systems, SCADA systems, testing, and measuring equipment …

Failure detection of high facilities always presents a tremendous challenge. Climbing-wall
robot with detection capacity has become a main approach. But owing to their limitations in …

The article presents the main stages of the development of remote control system for the
inspection mobile robot operating on inclined ferromagnetic surfaces. The mobile robot …

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 …

The paper presents a wall-climbing robot featuring self-compliance for variable curvature
façades. The high payload and maneuverability make it highly potential in heavy-duty …

Maintenance of ship hull involves routine tasks during dry-docking that includes inspection,
paint stripping, and re-painting. Among those, paint stripping is always seen as harmful for …

This paper is dedicated to solving the problem of a fuzzy observer development for the
clamping force automatic control system of a mobile robot with magnetically-operated …

In order to adhere to the wall stably in an underwater environment, a vortex suction cup that
injects high-pressure water inside via two axisymmetrically side-distributed inlets to create a …