Developments of Manipulators for Nuclear Power Plants' Maintenance and an Hierarchical Open System

Abstract

Because the mechanical and systematic requirements for robots used in nuclear power plants cannot often be satisfied with the industrial robots, special robots have been developed according to the specific needs. For saving time and cost of development, we have planned to prepare the general purpose manipulator with light-weight and environmental resistance which can be applied to maintenance work of nuclear power plants and which can correspond to system upgrading flexibly by an open system configuration.