Crawling robots for inspection and maintenance of tanker’s hulls
Cybernetix markets a range of robots (MHC) for the inspection and maintenance of vessel’s hulls. These robots are composed of a remotely operated mobile base, capable to cover large metallic areas, and of a specific tool dedicated to one particular application.
These robots are able to perform several applications such as surface preparation (hydroblasting), cleaning, or NDT inspection (cartography) over vessel’s hull in dry-dock or in-water. They can also be used over other metallic structures such as storage tanks, or metallic walls in harbours.
ROTIS (Remotely Operated Tanker Inspection System) is a robotic system designed to perform internal inspections of ship’s ballast tanks, including visual inspection and NDT steel thickness measurements. It can operate on oil tankers, dry- and mixed cargo carriers or FPSO.
ROTIS permits ship owners to avoid costly degassing or dry-docking of ships prior to inspection and therefore minimizes ship’s idle time. On the other hand, the system lessens direct human intervention in hazardous spaces. Inspections are performed remotely removing the need for direct access of human beings in the vicinity of structural members.
The ROTIS small vehicle (ROV) is introduced within flooded ballast tanks, between the inner and the outer hull, and has therefore access to virtually all cells and structural parts of a double hull vessel through standard man-holes and openings.
