Novel roaming and stationary tethered aerial robots for continuous mobile missions in nuclear power plants
Novel roaming and stationary tethered aerial robots for continuous mobile missions in nuclear power plants
In this paper, new tethered aerial robots including roaming tethered aerial robots (RTARs) for radioactive material sampling and stationary tethered aerial robots (STARs) for environment monitoring are proposed to meet extremely-long-endurance missions of nuclear power plants. The flight of the proposed tethered aerial robots may last for a few days or even a few months as long as the tethered cable provides continuous power.