US Patent Issued to China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Institute on Aug. 12 for "Path tracking method and device for in-oil inspection robot for storage tank bottom plate in invisible environment" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,033, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to China Special Equipment Inspection & Research Institute (Beijing).

"Path tracking method and device for in-oil inspection robot for storage tank bottom plate in invisible environment" was invented by Bin Hu (Beijing), Xiyue Zou (Beijing), Yan Zhang (Beijing), Zhiquan Wang (Beijing) and Ting Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path tracking method and device for an in-oil inspection robot for a storage tank bottom plate in an invisible environment are provided. The method includes: determining a current position of a robot in a rasterized storage tank bottom plate drawing; when the cu...