One pneumatic line based inchworm-like micro robot for half-inch pipe inspection

Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 315-322

  Lim, Jinwan ^a   Park, Hyunjun ^a   An, Jaemin ^a   Hong, Yeh Sun ^a   Kim, Byungkyu ^a   Yi, Byung Ju ^b  

^a Hankuk Aviation University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Inchworm; Pipe inspection; Pneumatic

Indexed keywords

AIR; FRICTION; INSPECTION; PNEUMATICS;

AIR FLOW; FRICTION FORCE; INCHWORM; INCHWORM-LIKE; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; MICRO HOLES; PIPE DIAMETER; PIPE INSPECTION;

MICROROBOTS;

EID: 48149095487     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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