Paper:
Improvement of a Screw Drive In-Pipe Robot with Pathway Selection Mechanism to Pass Through T-Branches
Taiki Nishimura, Atsushi Kakogawa, and Shugen Ma†
Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Noji-Higashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
†Corresponding author
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