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Low Cost Pipe-crawling Pneumatic Robot
Andrea Manuello Bertetto and Maurizio Ruggiu
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica Piazza D'Armi, 1 - 09123 Cagliari University of Cagliari, Italy
Received:April 16, 2002Accepted:April 22, 2002Published:August 20, 2002
Keywords:semi-autonomous robot, snake-like robot, inch-worm locomotion, flexible robots, pneumatics
Abstract
A pipes inspection robot prototype was built and a mathematical modeling of its dynamics was developed. In order to pass over complicated pipeline networks, the robot was constructed with a flexible rubber structure moved by pneumatics power The robot locomotion was inspired by the inch-worm gait kinematics. Because of significant acceleration values revealed during the robot gait, the robot dynamics was mathematically formulated either by a single degree of freedom model or by the assumed mode summation method. A set of experiments were conducted for obtaining all the parameters required for models formulation. Finally the models were validated by comparing the numerical and experimental robot gait with time.
Cite this article as:A. Bertetto and M. Ruggiu, “Low Cost Pipe-crawling Pneumatic Robot,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.14 No.4, pp. 400-407, 2002.Data files:
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