Remote handling system development of armor tile replacement for FER
- Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokoyo (Japan); and others
A number of armor tiles are attached to the first wall of the Fusion Experimental Reactor (FER) in order to protect the first wall against severe heat/particle loads from plasma during its operation. Although the armor tiles are made of heat-resisting materials such as graphite, they are eroded and damaged due to the loads and thus they are categorized into scheduled maintenance component. A remote handling system is required to replace a large number of tiles rapidly in the highly activated circumstance and has to be capable for adjusting a manipulator`s motion taking into account a thermal deformation of the first wall and/or a positioning error of a manipulator for the remote handling system. For this purpose, a remote handling system of the armor tile replacement with a visual feedback control has been fabricated and this paper describes an experimental system and the performance test results.
- OSTI ID:
- 196914
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940664-; TRN: 95:005767-0083
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ISFNT-3: international symposium on fusion nuclear technology, Los Angeles, CA (United States), 27 Jun - 1 Jul 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Third international symposium on fusion nuclear technology; PB: 362 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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