Development of a Wall Moving In-Pipe Robot

Shingo Kobayashi; Kan Taguchi

doi:10.20965/jrm.2003.p0238

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JRM Vol.15 No.2 pp. 238-243

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2003.p0238

(2003)

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Development of a Wall Moving In-Pipe Robot

Shingo Kobayashi and Kan Taguchi

The University of Electro-Communications Chofugaoka Chofu,Tokyo, Japan

Received:

December 5, 2002

Accepted:

January 30, 2003

Published:

April 20, 2003

Keywords:

vehicle in pipeline, pendulums with magnets

Abstract

We propose a wheeled in-pipe robot using pendulums with magnets for visual inspection. The robot runs in-100 [mm] diameter pipelines including elbows and T -joints. We describe a prototype robot that has successfully run through level pipelines, perpendicular pipelines, and elbows, and has turned to each directions in T -joints, even through avoiding small plugs.

Cite this article as:

S. Kobayashi and K. Taguchi, “Development of a Wall Moving In-Pipe Robot,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.15 No.2, pp. 238-243, 2003.

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