SIS100 Inspection robot : development and status report

During maintenance work or upgrade measures of large particle accelerator vacuum systems, randomly as well as deliberately introduced foreign objects may inhibit the particle beam significantly, usually leading to a considerable high risk of a complete shutdown of the accelerator. Considering reported incidents from several different particle accelerator laboratories, where e.g. bottles, screws, dropped down inserts, and in the case of SIS18, a crumpled aluminum foil, have been found within the vacuum system, a novel platform for a mobile inspection device is currently being developed and is foreseen to be deployed in SIS100.