Several remote stations can be served from a single central computer. This approach has several advantages. First, the simplicity of wiring, specially when arrays of transducers are employed in the inspection process. On the other hand, complex computations can be performed in real time, and most controlling operations of the NDE equipment are decentralized from the evaluation computer which only takes care of robot movement and synchronism. As a result, an increase of the scanning speed and an improvement of image quality are obtained.
Results show the performance of arrangements for different applications.
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