Abstract
In 2024, The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will be upgraded to increase its luminosity by a factor of 10 (HL-LHC). The ATLAS inner detector (ITk) will be upgraded at the same time. It has suffered the most radiation damage, as it is the section closest to the beamline, and the particle collisions. Due to the risk of excessive radiation doses, human intervention to decommission the inner detector will be restricted. Robotic systems are being developed to carry out the decommissioning and limit radiation exposure to personnel. In this paper, we present a study of the radiation tolerance of a robotic finger assessed in the Birmingham Cyclotron facility. The finger was part of the Shadow Grasper from Shadow Robot Company, which uses a set of Maxon DC motors.
This project has been funded by Innovate-UK under their “Energy Game Changer” collaborative research and development programme.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 654168.
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We are very grateful to Shadow Robot Company, especially Annagiulia Morachioli, Gavin Cassidy and James Southall-Andrews for their invaluable support. We also thank the University of Birmingham, especially Tony Price, Laura Gonella and Philip Allport for setting up the proton beam and for their help in installing our apparatus.
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French, R., Cryer, A., Kapellmann-Zafra, G., Marin-Reyes, H. (2018). Evaluating the Radiation Tolerance of a Robotic Finger. In: Giuliani, M., Assaf, T., Giannaccini, M. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10965. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96728-8_9
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