Acknowledgement
This paper is funded by the Taiwan National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) project "Nuclear Decommissioning Robotics Technology Roadmap Planning" (project number: MOST 111-NU-E-262-003-NU). We would like to express our sincere gratitude to NSTC for their support.
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