据烃加工在线7月14日消息称，由于机器人的最新进展，以及工业战略挑战基金(ISCF)通过英国研究和创新公司提供的资金，核、石油和天然气工业中复杂、艰巨和潜在危险的退役和维修任务可能很快就会变得容易得多和安全得多。

为期两年的Connect-R项目是由著名学者和领先的工程和机器人公司合作完成，目的是改变这些职责的执行方式。

核、石油和天然气行业的退役和维护涉及一系列挑战，没有简单的解决方案。所需的过程不可避免地是困难的、昂贵的，而且往往在难以驾驭和操作的地方进行。这些工业的典型特征是偏远的基地、危险的化学品和有毒和/或受污染的物体或材料：核退役区的辐射只是这些活动期间必须由人类工作小组管理的高度危险因素之一。

Connect-R是一种先进的解决方案，可以解决在这些危险的地方以及在这些难以穿越的地点工作所涉及的严重问题。这款高度专业化的机器人结合了人工智能、先进的工程技术和目前最尖端的研究成果。

Connect-R是一种独特的自动化设计:一种自构建的模块化机器人，它将有条不紊地朝着需要访问的区域构建自己。运动将由液压和电子系统的组合驱动。

通过这种方式，将建立一个能够访问所需工作场所的结构，不仅没有人为干预，而且也不会出现工人在压力和敌对环境下作业时更可能造成的错误。由于不受辐射和化学物质、气体和其他毒素的影响，这种自动化结构也使人们无需暴露于这些危险之中。除了可以访问站点并创建便于访问的平台之外，Connect-R系统可以构造成一个机械臂，连接井架，或充当一个通道，为工地提供天然气、水或电力等必需品。

曹海斌 摘译自 烃加工在线

原文如下：

Robotic invention aims to build a better way for oil and gas industry to operate

The complex, arduous and potentially dangerous tasks of decommissioning and maintenance in the nuclear, oil and gas industries could soon be made far easier and safer, thanks to the very latest robotic advances and funding from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) through UK Research and Innovation.

The two year Connect-R project is a collaboration of renowned academics and leading engineering and robotic companies working together to transform the way these duties are carried out.

Decommissioning and maintenance in the nuclear, oil and gas industries involves a range of challenges that have no easy solutions. The required processes are inevitably difficult, costly and often carried out in places that are difficult to navigate and operate within. These industries are typified by remote bases, dangerous chemicals and toxic and/or contaminated objects or materials: radiation in nuclear decommissioning zones is just one of the highly dangerous elements that must be managed by teams of human workers during these activities.

Connect-R is an advanced solution to the serious problems involved with working with these dangerous matters and in these difficult to traverse locations. This highly specialised robotic creation combines AI, advanced engineering techniques and the most cutting edge research findings available at this time.

Connect-R is a unique automated design: a self-building modular robot which will construct itself methodically towards the area that needs to be accessed. Movement will be powered by a combination of hydraulic and electronic systems.

In this way a structure enabling access to the required work site will be built, not only without human intervention, but without the mistakes more likely to be caused by workers operating under pressure and in hostile environments. Unaffected by radiation and the effects of chemicals, gases and other toxins, the automated structure also eliminates the need to expose people to these dangers. In addition to gaining access to sites and creating a platform for ready access, the Connect-R system can construct into a robotic arm, articulating derrick or act as a channel providing necessities like gas, water or power to the labour site.