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Magneto

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Country: Australia

Year: 2018

Summary

Represents the next generation of maintenance and inspection robots that can minimise risk and increase safety in the industrial workforce, particularly around confined space entry

Status: Research

Operation: Autonomous

Robot Type / Domain: Research, Building & Construction, Other Infrastructure

Tasks: maintenance, inspection, confined space entry, complex structures

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Below is an extract from the CSIRO article at https://www.csiro.au/en/research/technology-space/robotics/Magneto

"With permanent electro-magnetic feet and cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), the multi-legged Magneto can climb and inspect vertical and ferrous surfaces at any inclination. Magneto's design enables a high degree of flexibility, allowing it to successfully place its feet on discontinuous surfaces, such as narrow beams, and maintain that contact even when it is required to traverse a restricted space.

Magneto's advanced localisation and object detection features allow it to navigate and adapt its body to manoeuvre environments, while its quadruple footed platform provides limb freedom and manipulability while reducing the number of movements caused by the gravitational pull on the contact points.

This enables easier traversing of complex 3D structures and a wide range of body configurations necessary for desired sensor positioning, while the electro-magnetic feet give Magneto advanced dexterity that current inspection robots lack.

With permanent electro-magnetic feet the multi-legged Magneto can climb and inspect vertical and ferrous surfaces at any inclination.

Magneto's capabilities include:

traversing surfaces at any incline
confined space entry inspections
traversing narrow beams of varying separation
switching from locomotion to inspection of confined space voids.
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Technical Specifications

Size: 660L 600W 320H (mm)

Size: 25.984L 23.622W 12.598H (in)

Reachable Height: N/A

Max. Payload: 1.5 kg

Max. Payload: 3.307 lbs

Weight: 5.53 kg

Weight: 12.192 lbs

Max. Climbing Speed: N/A

Max. Slope: 360°

Battery Operated? No, Tethered

Average Runtime: N/A

Max. Runtime: N/A

Battery Recharge Time: N/A

Climbing Methods: Magnetic, Other, permanent electro-magnetic

Climbable Surfaces: complex industrial structures, ferrous surfaces

Number of Axes: N/A

Manipulation: N/A

IP Rating: N/A

Operating Temperature: N/A

Max. Wind Speed Resistance: N/A

Open-source? N/A

Price: N/A

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Degrees of freedom: three degrees of freedom (3-DOF) actuated limbs and a 3-DOF compliant magnetic foot

Maneuverability: Operates on any slope. Able to deform its body shape to squeeze through gaps of 23cm. Compact foot design of footprint 4cm allows Magneto to walk on narrow beams of thickness less than 5cm

Sensors: six-axis off-the-shelf force sensors in the limbs •

Material: Large portion of its components are 3D printed on common FDM machines

Power supply: A 24 V power supply is used to supply the tether; 5 V magnet controller and data link circuitry, 15.6 V actuators, and 24 V magnets

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References

T. Bandyopadhyay et al., "Magneto: A Versatile Multi-Limbed Inspection Robot," 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018, pp. 2253-2260, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593891.

Wegert, Zachary J., Anthony P. Roberts, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, and Vivien J. Challis. 2023. "Optimisation of a Multi-Functional Piezoelectric Component for a Climbing Robot" Materials 16, no. 14: 5076. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16145076

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