Novel Mobile Climbing Robot Agent for Offshore Platforms

To improve HSE standards, oil and gas industries are interested in using remotely controlled and autonomous robots instead of human workers on offshore platforms. In addition to earlier reason this strategy would increase potential revenue, efficient usage of work experts and even would allow operations in more remote areas. This article is the presentation of a custom climbing robot, called Walloid, designed for offshore platform topside automation. This 4 arms climbing robot with grippers is an ongoing project at University of Oslo.

Authors:

• Akbar F. Moghaddam
• Magnus Lange
• Omid Mirmotahari
• Mats Høvin

Keywords:

• Climbing Robots
• Mobile Robots
• Offshore Robotics
• Offshore Platforms
• Automation
• Inspection
• Monitoring.

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