Biologically inspired robotic system for steel bridge condition assessment

澳大利亚有数千座钢桥，构成了支持城市和农村社区的关键基础设施。定期检查是一项至关重要的工作，可以最大限度地减少桥梁故障的风险和相关的社区影响。 该项目将开发一个机器人检查系统，能够在结构上爬行，检查所有区域，获取必要的信息，并将这些信息适当地呈现给人类操作员，以促进有效的状况评估。该项目的成果将为全球范围内在民用基础设施状况评估中使用仿生机器人奠定基础，显著提高工人的安全性，大大降低成本并提高检查过程的效率。

Australia has many thousands of steel bridges which form a key infrastructure supporting urban and rural communities. Periodic inspection is a vital undertaking that minimises risk of bridge failures and associated community impact. This project will develop a robotic inspection system capable of crawling over the structure, inspecting all areas, acquiring essential information and appropriately presenting these to a human operator to facilitate effective condition assessment. The project's outcomes will lay the foundation for the world-wide use of bio-inspired robots in civil infrastructure condition assessment, significantly increasing worker’ safety and greatly reducing the costs and improving the efficiency of the inspection process.