Lufthansa Technik builds robot for fuselage inspections

Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has developed a robot-supported process for inspecting metallic aircraft fuselage structures. The research project, Thermographic Crack Detection, has produced a mobile robot, equipped with a thermographic probe, which passes over the outer skin of the fuselage on defined...

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