Development of an adaptive mobile robot for in-pipe inspection task

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3622-3627

  Li, Peng ^a,b   Ma, Shugen ^a,c   Li, Bin ^a   Wang, Yuechao ^a  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive mobile mechanism; In pipe robot; Mechanical design; Screw drive

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; SCREWS;

ADAPTIVE MOBILE MECHANISM; IN-PIPE ROBOTS; MECHANICAL DESIGN; SCREW DRIVES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 37049039444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2007.4304148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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