Bathyscaphic Robotic Floor Thickness Monitoring of Hazardous Liquid Storage Tanks - NautilUS

£1.51M GBP

Funder	Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
Recipient Organization	Rs Components Limited
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Mar 31, 2021
End Date	Mar 30, 2022
Duration	364 days
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`93649`

Grant Description

The NautilUS bathyscaphic robot will reduce the costs, danger and environmental and health and safety risks involved in inspections required by the American Petroleum Institute (API) industry standard for petrochemical storage tank periodic inspections and in particular for corrosion thinning of the tank floor.

At the same time, the shortcomings of existing robotic solutions will be overcome due to unique characteristics of the robotic NautilUS platform.

The output of the project will lead to a product that will increase the turnover and profitability of the 3 UK organisations; RS Components, Innvotek Ltd and Sonomatic Ltd.