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This paper reports the recent development towards autonomous ultrasonic thickness measurement on steel bridge members through the novel integration of a magnet-wheeled steel climbing bicycle robot and a wireless ultrasonic sensing device named Martlet. The compact Martlet wireless device has been designed to attain accurate thickness measurement through the combination of high-voltage excitation, filtering/amplification of the received ultrasonic signal, and high-speed analog-to-digital conversion (~80 MHz). To achieve autonomous inspection, the Martlet ultrasonic device is carried by the steel climbing bicycle robot along with a dual element transducer. The developed mobile sensing system successfully obtains accurate thickness measurement in laboratory testing.
DOI: 10.32548/RS.2022.029
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