“The drones are small and flexible. They can go to places that are unreachable by humans.”
Robots are capable of examining the facilities in greater detail than humans, engineers say. ‘Finding defects is like finding a needle at sea. Some are in hidden places or dead corners, and they can easily be missed by humans,’ Wong says. — SCMP
Robots were capable of examining the facilities in greater detail than humans and could help reduce safety hazards for workers operating in confined areas, they added.“Now we can conduct inspections swiftly and we only need to apply scaffolding to specific locations where defects have been identified by drones,” Grace Wong Chung-yan, a CLP engineer, said on Tuesday. “This has made the inspection and repair work more efficient.
“Facilities at power plants are huge. Finding defects is like finding a needle at sea. Some are in hidden places or dead corners, and they can easily be missed by humans,” she said. CLP then introduced the cage drones for internal facility inspections in 2019. The technology uses the Light Detection and Ranging system and sensors for positioning, which are not subject to GPS signals. Carbon fibre cages surround the drones to help avoid collisions.
“We’ll try to develop some drones which can do maintenance work. But that will not be easy,” he said.“A cage drone costs hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars and can be used multiple times, but setting up full-scale scaffoldings can cost HK$2-3 million every time,” Ng said.
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