General Electric Company

Giorgio Valsecchi

Thomas James Batzinger

Shigeo Hirose

Paulo Cesar Debenest

Michele Guarnieri

Selim Akin

Selami Haydar Icli

Christopher Paul Markman

Giacomo Cimarelli

Airton Rosa Da Silva, Jr

This disclosure provides systems and methods for in situ gap inspection in a machine, such as a generator, an electric motor, or a turbomachine, with an end region. A robotic crawler is configured to navigate an annular gap of the machine. A visual inspection module is connected to the robotic crawler and includes an extension member for extending a camera into the end region to collect visual inspection data.

End region inspection module and method for in situ gap inspection robot system

This disclosure provides systems and methods for an actuated sensor module for in situ gap inspection robots. A mounting interface attaches to the sensor module to the robot system. A least one arm is operatively connected to the mounting interface and has a joint. A sensor head is operatively connected to the arm at the joint and an actuator operatively connected to the arm moves the sensor head around the second joint.

Actuated sensor module and method for in situ gap inspection robots

This disclosure provides systems and components for an omnidirectional traction module for use in a robot, such as a crawler robot used in in situ gap inspection in a machine, such as a generator, an electric motor, or a turbomachine. The traction module may include an outer frame and a rotating frame rotatably mounted within the outer frame. At least one drive system may be mounted within the rotating frame. The at least one dive system may have a fixed orientation within the rotating frame. An actuator may be operatively connected to the rotating frame to controllably rotate the rotating frame to a desired orientation for robot travel.

Omnidirectional traction module for a robot

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Tokyo, Japan

Giorgio Valsecchi