Robotic Replacement System for Thermocouple Components in the Nuclear Power Plant

Haihua Huang, Yujie Feng, Yi Tan, Rui Ma*, Quanbin Lai, Binxuan Sun, Xingguang Duan

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Aiming at leakage, crystallization and deformation of RIC (In-Core Instrumentation) system, the thermocouple is mainly used to measure the outlet temperature of the reactor core coolant in the RIC system, which plays an important role in the condition monitoring of the internal equipment in the nuclear reactor core. To prevent serious nuclear accidents and reduce the radiation to maintenance personnel, a thermocouple component robotic replacement system is built in the nuclear reactor. This paper analyzes the increased demand for thermocouple components replacement. According to the demand, the context plans the specific workflow of the robot, designs three dexterous end effectors, adopts an incremental master-slave mapping algorithm and completes the overall design of the robotic system. Finally, an experimental setup is built to test the operation process of the robotic system, which proved the system can complete the assembly replacement requirements. The system lays the foundation for the development and engineering application on next step.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 15th International Conference, ICIRA 2022, Proceedings
EditorsHonghai Liu, Weihong Ren, Zhouping Yin, Lianqing Liu, Li Jiang, Guoying Gu, Xinyu Wu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages575-586
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031138430
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022 - Harbin, China
Duration: 1 Aug 20223 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13455 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period1/08/223/08/22

Keywords

  • Nuclear robot
  • RIC system
  • Thermocouple replacement

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