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| Robotic Excavation of Radioactive Waste for Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. In 1995 AIR-SPADE completed and installed an air-vacuum excavation unit for use with Lockheed – Martin’s Cooperative Telerobotic Retrieval system at the INEEL Robotic Lab. AIR-SPADE’s system provided the capability to remotely excavate and remove spoil from a 60-foot square pit of buried waste up to 15 feet deep. The equipment skid is electrically powered and provides compressed air and vacuum suction to the digging unit. The digging unit is mounted on a boom crane that provides the means to move the unit horizontally over the entire surface of the pit and it uses its own telescoping boom with an excavating head to loosen and lift material from the pit. Material is continuously discharged from the collector onto a secondary conveyor for loading into containers for disposal. To see video of the system in operation, please go to our reference library.
INEEL Equipment Skid Specifications
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