Offshore Infrastructure Robotic Inspection System (OSIRIS) Demonstrator

OSIRIS是一种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。它减轻了工人的风险，他们通常在危险的条件下手动执行这项任务。OSIRIS结合了无人机和攀爬机器人的优点，没有它们明显的局限性。无人机提供了灵活的隔离检查，但由于无法与结构实现安全接触，因此其实用性受到限制，从而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。攀爬机器人提供了与目标结构的持续接触，但要进入涡轮叶片需要人工放置和回收，这就避免了降低风险的好处。OSIRIS既可以作为无人机也可以作为攀爬机器人，具有在两种模式之间转换的能力，因此可以在没有固有限制的情况下提供每种模式的优点。OSIRIS可以在靠近涡轮叶片的地方操作，获得高清晰度的远距离图像，连接并过渡到爬升模式，进行基于接触的无损检测，然后分离并返回到无人机模式。这个为期21个月的示范项目将机器人专家Autonomous Devices与最终用户Wood（石油和天然气、发电、清洁能源、化学、石化和制造业的主要产品和服务提供商）、材料和无损检测专家the Welding Institute以及海上可再生能源弹射器（作为示范合作伙伴，在Levenmouth提供实验性7MW海上涡轮机）结合在一起。虽然我们的创新针对的是海上风力涡轮机叶片检测应用，但我们确实有潜力将这项技术推广到邻近市场。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."