Saudi Arabian Oil Company

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Sultan Shaqaq

Fadl Abdellatif

Abdullah Arab

Sahejad Patel

Abdullah A Alkhder

Jeff S Shamma

Aziz U Rehman

Abdullah M Guwaifli

In one aspect, a magnetic drone is disclosed. The magnetic drone includes a drone, a cage surrounding the drone, and one or more magnets disposed on the cage surrounding the drone. The drone includes a camera, a battery, one or more electric motors, and one or more propellers. In other aspects, a method to operate a magnetic drone and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for performing operation that flies a magnetic drone are also disclosed.

Magnetic drone

A robotic device may include a housing comprising the shape of a wheel, the housing having a magnetically conductive outer surface and an inner chamber. The robotic device may include a plurality of magnetic elements disposed around the inner chamber of the housing, the plurality of magnetic elements being coupled to a first end of a power drive. The robotic device may include a processor disposed in the inner chamber of the housing, the processor being coupled to a second end of a power drive. The processor may use the power drive to instructs at least one magnetic element out of the plurality of magnetic elements to magnetize. The at least one magnetic element may be magnetized without magnetizing any other magnetic element out of the plurality of magnetic elements.

Robotic device, assembly, and method for moving the same

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a flexible holder retaining a plurality of probes. The flexible holder is deformable to arrange the probes around a portion of a structure, allowing the probes to scan the portion of the structure. At least one of the plurality of probes is an ultrasonic test (UT) probe to scan the portion of the structure with ultrasonic waves.

UAV for continuous ultrasound testing (UT) scans with a flexible payload

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a flight-only mode with a motor only rotating propellers and not rotating on-board wheels to configure the UAV to fly away from a surface of a structure, and a crawling-only mode in which the UAV is configured to crawl on the surface due to the motor only rotating the wheels while not rotating the propellers. In the flight-only mode, a clutch disengages a motor from the wheels so that the motor only engages the propellers to fly to lift from the surface. In the crawling-only mode, the clutch disengages the motor from the propellers so that the motor only engages the wheels to move the UAV on the surface.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Sultan Shaqaq