RoboTurb

RoboTurb is a welding robot used to repair turbine blades developed at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. It is a redundant robot with a flexible rail.

References

* RoboTurb Project (2004). [http://www.roboturb.ufsc.br The Roboturb Project] . In Portuguese Retrieved Dec. 5, 2004.
* Robotics Laboratory at UFSC. [http://www.robotica.ufsc.br/tiki-index.php?page=Robotics+Laboratory Robotics laboratory] . Retrieved Oct. 12, 2006.

The Roboturb project started in 1998 at the [http://www.ufsc.br Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina] initially with the support of the Brazilian Government and the public power utilitycompany [http://www.copel.com COPEL – Companhia Paranaense de Energia Eletrica] .

Three phases followed, and now the project is mainly maintained by another public power utilitycompany [http://www.furnas.gov.br FURNAS – Furnas Centrais Eletricas] .