engineering

Taurob

Taurob is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Taurob rather than just read about it. In short: Taurob GmbH is an Austrian robotics company best known for its ATEX certified Taurob Inspector robot and for winning Total Energies' ARGOS Challenge (together with TU Darmstadt) in 2017. Since 2019, Taurob is part of Dietsmann Group.

Taurob — illustration

Key takeaways

Taurob belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Taurob to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Taurob from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Taurob GmbH is an Austrian robotics company best known for its ATEX certified Taurob Inspector robot and for winning Total Energies' ARGOS Challenge (together with TU Darmstadt) in 2017. Since 2019, Taurob is part of Dietsmann Group.

History Founded in 2010 by Lukas Silberbauer and Matthias Biegl with the aim of developing robots for fire fighters the company has since expanded to other domains such as police, civil-defence, military and the oil and gas industry. In 2012 Taurob introduced the world's first ATEX certified robot with the Taurob Tracker. Forming a collaborative team named ARGONAUTS with TU Darmstadt, Taurob participated in Total Energies' ARGOS (Autonomous Robots for Oil and Gas Sites) challenge between 2014 and 2017. The ARGONAUTS team was ultimately victorious, making the final shortlist of 5 teams out of 31 international entries. This victory resulted in the robot being chosen to start operating on Total Energies industrial sites by 2020. Between 2018 and 2020 Taurob was part of the OGRIP (Offshore Ground Robotics Industrial Pilot) project, funded by Total Energies and the Oil and Gas Technology Center (OGTC) which formed the foundation of the Taurob Inspector robot - a refinement and development of the platform that won the ARGOS challenge and the existing Taurob Tracker robot. In August 2020 the Taurob Inspector performed the world's first offshore deployment of an ATEX certified robot with its week-long mission on a platform in Total Energies' K5 gas field 110 km off the coast of the Netherlands. The mission focused on robotically surveying the platform for corrosion and on teleoperation from an on-shore control room. Two Taurob Inspectors were handed over to TOTAL in November 2020 for a year-long deployment at the Shetland Gas Plant. The robots will be focused on conducting autonomous inspection rounds of an MEG (gas dehydration) unit, with tasks such as valve reading, corrosion identification and frequency monitoring of valves and other components. The company is currently designing the first OWCR (Offshore Work Class Robot) with a heavy duty arm as part of a joint industry project with Total Energies, Equinor and SAFT. This robot will be ATEX and IECEx certified and allow a much higher degree of modularity. The first trials were performed in Q3 2023 in Lacq, France.

References

External links Official website (English)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Taurob

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Taurob claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Taurob before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Taurob ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Taurob

In research: Taurob appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Taurob in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Taurob is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Austrian companies established in 2010, Companies based in Vienna, Electronics companies established in 2010, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Taurob outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Taurob in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Taurob means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Taurob out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Taurob in simple terms?

Why does Taurob matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Taurob?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Taurob.