BUGWRIGHT2

The EU-funded BugWright2 project will facilitate a multi-robot visual and acoustic inspection of the whole structure from robotic platforms in the air and underwater, detecting corrosion patches or cleaning the surface as necessary... The latter has the potential to very significantly reduce the fuel consumption of merchant vessels and as a result, reduce the need for antifouling paint on the hulls. It will combine the survey capabilities of autonomous micro air vehicles (MAV) and small autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) with teams of magnetic-wheeled crawlers operating directly on the surface of the structure. The technology being developed may also be adapted to storage tanks or other structures assembled out of metal plates... The offering of these services goes together with the objective of BUGWRIGHT2 to demonstrate to the community of end-users that autonomous hull-state inspection cleaning is possible, fast and valuable, with minimal human intervention and without requiring..

Primary location: Metz France