Offshore Infrastructure Robotic Inspection System (OSIRIS) Demonstrator

“OSIRIS是一款高度创新的机器人解决方案，用于海上风力涡轮机叶片的详细检查。OSIRIS结合了无人机和攀爬机器人的最佳功能，而没有它们的明显局限性。无人机提供灵活的远距离检测，但其实用性受到无法实现与结构安全接触的限制，排除了能够解决亚表面损伤的基于接触的无损检测（NDT）技术。攀爬机器人提供与目标结构的持续接触，但是接近涡轮机叶片需要由人放置和取回，从而排除了风险减轻的益处。OSIRIS同时作为无人机和攀爬机器人运行，能够在两种模式之间转换，因此提供了每种模式的好处，而没有固有的限制。OSIRIS可以在靠近涡轮机叶片的地方运行，以获得高清晰度的远距离图像，连接并转换到爬升模式进行接触式无损检测，然后分离并返回无人机模式。这个为期21个月的演示项目将机器人专家Autonomous Devices与最终用户Wood（主要为石油和天然气、发电、清洁能源、化工、石化和制造业提供产品和服务）、材料和无损检测专家焊接研究所，和海上可再生能源弹射器（作为示范合作伙伴，提供在Levenmouth的实验性7 MW海上涡轮机）。虽然我们的创新目标是海上风力涡轮机叶片检测应用，但将该技术应用于邻近市场仍有真实的潜力。所有预期市场的全球性意味着OSIRIS具有很高的出口潜力。"

"OSIRIS is a highly innovative robotic solution for the detailed inspection of offshore wind turbine blades. It alleviates the risks imposed on workers, who typically carry out this task manually under hazardous conditions.OSIRIS combines the best features of drones and climbing robots, without their notable limitations. Drones offer flexible stand-off inspection, but their utility is limited by an inability to achieve secure contact with structures, ruling out contact-based Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques capable of resolving sub-surface damage. Climbing robots offer constant contact with the target structure, but access to turbine blades requires placement and retrieval by a human, obviating the risk alleviation benefits. OSIRIS operates as both a drone and a climbing robot, with an ability to transition between the two modes, and therefore offers the benefits of each without the inherent limitations. OSIRIS can operate in close proximity to a turbine blade to obtain high definition stand-off imagery, attach and transition to climbing mode for contact based NDT, and then detach and return to drone mode.This 21-month demonstrator project brings together robotics specialist Autonomous Devices with end user Wood (a major provider of products and services to the oil and gas, power generation, clean energy, chemical, petrochemical and manufacturing sectors), materials and NDT expert The Welding Institute, and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (as a demonstration partner providing access to an experimental 7MW offshore turbine at Levenmouth). Although our innovation targets the offshore wind turbine blade inspection application, there is real potential to read the technology across to adjacent markets. The global nature of all anticipated markets means that OSIRIS has high export potential."