Light duty arm system deployment plans and applications
- Westinghouse Hanford Company, Richland, WA (United States)
The Light Duty Utility Arm (LDUA) System is being developed to provide an integrated system of technologies to deploy tools and sensors, called end effectors, in underground storage tanks. The objective of this project is to develop and field new technologies to obtain information about the conditions and contents of the United States Department of Energy`s (DOE`s) underground waste storage tanks and to perform small scale retrieval operations. The project scope includes development and demonstration of advanced robotic technologies, sensory end effectors, waste retrieval tools, and support systems for field deployment in underground storage tanks. In-tank demonstrations of the LDUA System are planned at three DOE sites by the fall of 1997. The system will be deployed in tanks at Hanford, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) to demonstrate system applications in the areas of surveillance and inspection, in-tank waste analysis, sampling, and waste heel retrieval. This paper will provide a general description of the system design and discuss planned applications of the system technologies to support DOE environmental restoration programs.
- OSTI ID:
- 476605
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960804--Vol.3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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