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Sustainability, 2022 Surface mining is the world’s most costly industry due to its enormous expenses. Reduced production is forcing mining companies to automate their equipment, predominantly heavy earth mining machinery (HEMMs), for example, dump trucks, shovels, and dozers.
Kartick Bhushan +6 more
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Design and Analysis of Independently Adjustable Large In-Pipe Robot for Long-Distance Pipeline
Applied Sciences, 2020 Large oil and gas pipelines are prone to corrosion and leakage, so in-pipe inspection is necessary. In this article, we show a novel robot mechanism for long-distance pipeline inspection.
Wentao Zhao, Liang Zhang, Jongwon Kim
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Swarm Crawler Robots Using Lévy Flight for Targets Exploration in Large Environments
Robotics, 2022 This study tackles the task of swarm robotics, where robots explore the environment to detect targets. When a robot detects a target, the robot must be connected with a base station via intermediate relay robots for wireless communication.
Y. Katada +4 more
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The Hierarchic Treatment of Marine Ecological Information from Spatial Networks of Benthic Platforms
Sensors, 2020 Measuring biodiversity simultaneously in different locations, at different temporal scales, and over wide spatial scales is of strategic importance for the improvement of our understanding of the functioning of marine ecosystems and for the conservation ...
Jacopo Aguzzi +6 more
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Quantifying an online wildlife trade using a web crawler
Biodiversity and Conservation, 2022 Legally protected plants are illegally traded through online sales platforms and orchids are a significant component of this wildlife trade. This study focused on salep, a compound product made from wild collected orchid tubers from several genera ...
S. Masters +11 more
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Friction Forces at the Wheel's Contact with the Ground in a Turning Vehicle
Tribology in Industry, 2019 Tangential ground reactions are friction forces in their essence. Problems in the description of the frictional contact of the wheel with the ground arise during the curvilinear motion of a vehicle.
I. Troyanovskaya +3 more
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A Flexible Autonomous Robotic Observatory Infrastructure for Bentho-Pelagic Monitoring
Sensors, 2020 This paper presents the technological developments and the policy contexts for the project “Autonomous Robotic Sea-Floor Infrastructure for Bentho-Pelagic Monitoring” (ARIM).
Jacopo Aguzzi +13 more
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Information, 2019 This paper presents the processing steps needed in order to have a fully functional vertical search engine. Four actions are identified (i.e., retrieval, extraction, presentation, and delivery) and are required to crawl websites, get the product ...
Adrian Alexandrescu
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Texture descriptor combining fractal dimension and artificial crawlers [PDF]
, 2013 Texture is an important visual attribute used to describe images. There are many methods available for texture analysis. However, they do not capture the details richness of the image surface.
Bruno, Odemir Martinez +2 more
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Development of a steering mechanism for a cylindrical elastic crawler
Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2023 There are many pipes in factories, chemical plants and houses, whose insides are inaccessible by human. These pipes must be continuously inspected and repaired to prevent severe accidents. To realize robots which can inspect inside of such pipes, we have
Jun-ya NAGASE, Yo UNNO
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