Bathyscaphic Robotic Floor Thickness Monitoring of Hazardous Liquid Storage Tanks (NautilUS)

Nautilus深水机器人将降低成本、危险以及美国石油学会(API)对石化储罐定期检查，特别是对罐底腐蚀减薄所要求的检查所涉及的环境、健康和安全风险。同时，由于机器人鹦鹉螺平台独特的运动特性，现有机器人解决方案的缺点将被克服。该项目的成果将产生一种产品，通过在商业化后的五年内创造价值1700万GB的营业额机会，增加英国3家中小企业-Monition Ltd、InnotecUK Ltd和Diagnotics Sonar Ltd(DSL)的营业额和盈利能力。将通过开发低功率防爆机器人设计、开发罐内机器人本地化以及超声波硬件和软件开发来实现消除当前将被检查的坦克从服务中移除的需要的总体目标，这些将被整合到一个产品中，以提供具有成本效益的、持续部署的统计检查解决方案。

The NautilUS bathyscaphic robot will reduce the costs, danger and environmental and health and safety risks involved in inspections required by the American Petroleum Institute (API) industry standard for petrochemical storage tank periodic inspections and in particular for corrosion thinning of the tank floor. At the same time, the shortcomings of existing robotic solutions will be overcome due to unique motion characteristics of the robotic NautilUS platform. The output of the project will lead to a product that will increase the turnover and profitability of the 3 UK SMEs - Monition Ltd, InnotecUK Ltd and Diagnostic Sonar Ltd (DSL) through the creation of an opportunity worth £17M in turnover over the five years following commercialisation. The overall objective of negating the current need for removing the tank to be inspected from service will be achieved through developments in low power explosion-proof robot design, the development of in-tank robot localisation and ultrasonics hardware and software developments, which will be integrated into a product to provide a cost-effective, continuously deployed statistical inspection solution.