Vale S.a.

Servico Nacional De Aprendizagem Industrial, Departamento Regional Da Bahia

Wilson Miola

Luis Guilherme Uzeda Garcia

Gabriel Carvalho Garcia

Gustavo Medeiros Freitas

Filipe Augusto Santos Rocha

Marcos Paulo Torre

Ramon Nunes Araújo

Marco Antonio Dos Reis

Márcio Fernando Mansur Gomes

Adoniran Judson De Barros Braga

Victória Regina Ramos

Luis Carlos Moreno Ledezma

Andrè Noll Barreto

Iuri Viana Brandi

Eduardo Cota

Angelo Frederico Fontes Junior

Héctor Azpúrua

Branilson Luiz Santos Costa

Leonardo Aguayo

Ronaldo Pereira Evangelista

Luiz Eduardo Da Costa Nogueira

Pedro Xavier Alcantara

Rebeca Tourinho Lima

Alexandre Souza Santos

Tiago Pereira De Souza

This disclosure presents a robotic device for multi-terrain inspection, composed by a robot body, a quick reconfigurable locomotion module and a mapping unit capable to model the inspected environment through a 3D colored point cloud. The robot has different locomotion mechanisms that can be quickly replaced, thereby changing the robot mobility characteristics. The device is controlled through teleoperation or autonomously. When in teleoperated mode, an operating assist module provides relevant locomotion information to the operator including a map that shows areas where the robot may not transpose or tip-over. This module also suggests to the operator other locomotion configurations to overcome obstacles presented in the map. When in autonomous mode, the navigation module provides a strategy to explore unknown environments and trace optimal locomotion path considering the traveled distance, tipping-over risk and energy consumption. Regarding the invention characteristics described above, the main objective is to perform inspections of confined and risk areas, i.e., caves, sewer and dam spillway galleries, and areas with risk of collapse.

Multi-terrain inspection robotic device and methods for configuring and guiding the same

The present aspects provide a tracking and spatial location system of magnetic sensors applied in extraction and transport processes in open pit mines or underground mines, allowing spatially locating one or more sensors that transmit magnetic signals through of one or more collectors that perform a reading and processing of these signals. The present aspects also to provide a tracking and location method that makes use of the magnetic sensors tracking and spatial location system, comprising the necessary steps to perform the tracking and determine the location of the sensors.

Tracking and spatial location system of magnetic sensors and tracking and location method

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Wilson Miola