Publications by Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Siegwart, Roland Moser, Fabien Tâche, Patrick Schoeneich, Gilles Caprari, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Andreas Breitenmoser

John Wiley & Sons2012

Tubulo II: magnetic climbing inchworm for inspection of boiler tubes

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

TUBULO II is a climbing inspection robot with for inner inspection of boiler tubes. Its locomotion principle is the inchworm type. The adhesion is realized with Magnetic Switchable Device [1]. The inner is able to operate within a tube of inner bore diamet ...

World Scientific2011

TRIPILLAR: Miniature magnetic caterpillar climbing robot with plane transition ability

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

We present a miniature magnetic climbing robot with dimensions 96 x 46 x 64mm(3). With two degrees of freedom it is able to climb ferromagnetic surfaces and to make inner plane to plane transitions whatever their inclination is. This robot, named TRIPILLAR ...

Cambridge University Press2011

Tubulo - a train-like miniature inspection climbing robot for ferromagnetic tubes

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Roland Moser, Gilles Caprari, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

A train-like miniature climbing inspection robot for ferromagnetic tubes is presented in this paper. Using magnetic wheels, it climbs in tubes of 25 mm of diameter and bigger in any orientation, and pass bends with curvatures above 150 mm in some cases. It ...

IEEE Press2010

TRIPILLAR: Miniature magnetic caterpillar climbing robot with plane transition ability

Francesco Mondada, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen

In this paper, we describe a miniature climbing robot, 96 x 46 x 64 [mm3], able to climb ferromagnetic surfaces and to make inner plane to plane transition using only two degrees of freedom. Our robot, named TRIPILLAR, combines magnetic caterpillars and ma ...

World Scientific2009