Rolls-Royce Holdings plans to develop 'a cockroach type robot that enters the engine of an airplane and scans inside'
Rolls-Royce Holdings , one of the world's leading aerospace engine manufacturing companies, announced the development of a "small robot that enters the engine of an airplane and scans the state around the engine like a cockroach."
By the way, Rolls-Royce Holdings was originally the same company as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, a car manufacturer, but after the management collapse / nationalization in 1971, the automobile division as Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in 1973 Separation. The remaining departments are also re-privatized in 1987, so now they are independent companies.
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rolls-royce to build robot cockroach to crawl inside and fix airplane engines
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Rolls-Royce Holdings showed a vision of a new aircraft engine called the intelligent engine in accordance with the increase in aircraft users due to the development of the aviation industry at the Singapore Air Show in 2018.
The intelligent engine aims to develop 'aircraft engines specialized in service care' taking advantage of data collection and AI technology. In Rolls-Royce, we are doing various efforts to improve the maintenance and adaptability of the engine. Specifically, it is necessary to automatically recognize the status of the equipment related to the engine, automatically wait for human intervention, automatically detect the status of the equipment related to the engine, Adaptation "" It demonstrates optimal performance from stored records and engine records of other aircraft on the network, "he said.
A small robot named " SWARM robots " is developed as a part of it. This robot developed jointly with the research team of Harvard University says engineers will be able to monitor the inside without detaching the engine of the airplane, greatly improving maintainability.
You can see how the SWARM robots check engines by looking at the following movie.
Rolls-Royce | SWARM robots
The airplane engine is a very complicated mechanism, and maintenance requires a lot of time.
A small hole made on the outer wall of the engine serves as the entrance to SWARM robots of the maintenance robot.
Remove the small cap attached to the hole ......
Move the thin tube closer.
The tube passes through the hole ......
I will go deep into the througles and engines.
Soon the tube reached the part inside the engine that you wanted to scan with SWARM robots.
A small robot came out from the tip of the tube. This is SWARM robots.
SWARM robots move small legs finely, climbing the wall like a slow-speed cockroach, and getting off a step.
Scan internal situation with installed small camera ......
We carefully check for problems.
Multiple SWARM robots will be thrown in one time, and each one will scan efficiently with the range to check.
The state of the scan can be checked remotely and the engineer can check without approaching the inside of the engine.
When scanning is completed, SWARM robots automatically come back close to the tube ......
Enter the tube.
After collecting all the SWARM robots, pulling the tube with the thrus is OK.
It seems that it becomes a robot which can safely and easily scan a complicated airplane engine.
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