Product profile
BladeBUG NDT Robot
BladeBUG’s robotic NDT platform is a multi-legged crawler that carries contact ultrasonic inspection equipment directly across in-service wind-turbine blad...
Facts
- Company
- BladeBUG
- Product type
- wind_turbine_blade_ndt_robot
- Status
- pilot
- Primary capability
- Detect subsurface defects in wind-turbine blades
- Website
- https://www.bladebug.co.uk/
About BladeBUG NDT Robot
BladeBUG is a multi-legged crawler for contact non-destructive testing of wind-turbine blades. It carries ultrasonic inspection equipment across the blade surface to identify subsurface defects including delamination, bondline failures, voids, cracks and fibre wrinkles.
The platform is designed for uptower inspection without removing the blade. Coverage, defect sensitivity and data quality depend on the selected sensor, scan path, blade condition and inspection procedure.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Legged crawler
Core: BladeBUG
Function: Defect detection
Audience: Wind teams
Specifications
- sensors
- Contact ultrasonic non-destructive testing
Operations
- Environment
- industrial_facilities, critical_infrastructure
- Primary user
- Wind-farm inspection and blade-maintenance teams
- Role
- Detect subsurface defects in wind-turbine blades
- Interaction model
- autonomous_and_operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- surface_climbing_crawler
- Product detail
- mobile_robot, official_16x9_ready, Wind-Turbine Blade NDT Robot, official_product_media, mobile_robot, Wind-Turbine Blade NDT Robot, mobile_robot, wind_turbine_blade_ndt_robot, mobile_robot
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- BladeBUG completes first offshore turbine blade walk — 2020-11-05