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CROC is a biologically inspired climbing robot for the autonomous inspection of steel infrastructure. The research has been funded by the Road and Maritime Services New South Wales (RMS) and has been carried out by the Centre for Autonomous Systems and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

CROC is a fully autonomous 7 Degree of Freedom (DOF) climbing robot equipped with a 3D sensor and High Definition camera. It is able to explore unknown and complex environments such as the box girder arches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Using the maps generated from the 3D sensor the robot is able to plan it's own path through the structure whilst gathering HD images. These images are collected and stored into a Geographic Information System (GIS) to aid bridge inspectors in condition assessment of the structure.

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