Design and development of a submersible rope climbing robot

offshore oil well platforms are supported by huge guy wires. Ocean waves and motion in the control stations would cause continuous change in tension and slack in the wires. This can cause failure in internal fibers in the wire, which would be invisible. Breakage of a large number of internal fibers can lead to a snap off with catastrophic consequences.
This research project is on design and development of a submersible rope climbing robot that can move along underwater guy wires to probe them using on board sensors such as ultrasonic and vision.
The faculty adviser, along with his graduate students, have developed a re-configurable rope climbing robot. Further modifications would be needed to make it fully autonomous and submersible.

Faculty Supervisor:

Mehran Mehrandezh

Student:

ABHIJIT CHILUKURI

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Globalink