Robotic Nondestructive Testing Technology

The content of this book includes a variety of nondestructive testing (NDT) methods with many introductions to testing and application cases. The book proposes new ultrasonic testing technology for complex workpieces. It is hard for traditional NDT technology to realize the automatic detection of complex curved components especially the automatic high-precision nondestructive detection of curved-surface components with variable curvature variable thickness and complex contour. Therefore the robotic NDT technique as a combination of manipulator technique and NDT technique can further improve the efficiency and accuracy of NDT. Robotic NDT Technique combines the physical principle of nondestructive testing with the flexible motion control of spatial attitude of articulated manipulator. With NDT as the constraint it controls the motion attitude and azimuth angle of a transmitting and receiving transducer. Thus traditional NDT technique has developed from plane to curved surface from 2D to many dimensions and from artificiality to intelligence into a unique and systematic interdisciplinary robotic NDT technique.