This article is about a robot that was built to inspect wind energy converters. These wind energy converters undergo frequent stress as they run. They must withstand strong winds, rain, erosion, and so on. Because they must endure such constant stress, these wind energy converters are often damaged. For this reason, people used to have to climb up on the wind energy converters to search for damage. However many of these damages are undetectable to the human eye. Some of these damages might be under the surface, or be minuscule cracks that cannot even be seen. In addition to this, the wind energy converters are abnormally large, as this link shows, making this process not only ineffective, but dangerous as well. After considering this, the wind inspecting robot was built. It can use an infrared conductor, an ultrasound, and a high resolution camera to detect any damage to the wind energy converters, whether or not it is “visible.” It can also be used on any wind energy converter, no matter where it is. I believe that this robot is a very good idea. Not only does it help people find things that normally would have been missed, it prevents them form having to climb up there and put themselves in danger in doing so. It fulfills one of the primary reasons we built robots in the first place-to help people do things that they would be unable to do themselves.
Wind Inspector Link
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