A robotic manipulator for handling TLD badges.
A prototype system for automatic handling of Harshaw/Bicron (now ThermoFisher Scientific) thermoluminescent dosimetry (TLD) badges, which is based on a robotic arm, was designed and built. The robot performs the loading and unloading of the TLD cards in the badges and transports them between the loading/unloading station and magazine stations. For quality assurance, a sticker containing the worker's details printed in barcode format was added to the badge. Automatic on-line identification is performed for checking the correlation between the badge and the TLD card number.
Levinson
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Radiation Safety Department, Nuclear Research Center Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. sea-and-spa@013.net.il
Weinstein
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Abraham
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German
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Gorelik
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Rozenfeld
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Hillel
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Rodnay
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D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000295:instrumentation*