Pneumatic robot based on inchworm motion for small diameter pipe inspection

2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 330-335

  Lim, Jinwan ^a   Park, Hyunjun ^a   Moon, Sunmoo ^a   Kim, Byungkyu ^a  

^a Hankuk Aviation University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

In pipe inspection robot; Inchworm; Pneumatic

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOMIMETICS; DRAG; FLUID MECHANICS; PIPE; PNEUMATICS; ROBOTICS;

ADOPTABILITY; AIR FLOWS; DRAG FORCES; IN-PIPE; IN-PIPE INSPECTION ROBOT; INCHWORM; INCHWORM MOTION; INCHWORM-LIKE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MICRO HOLES; MICRO ROBOTS; PIPE DIAMETERS; PIPE INSPECTION; PNEUMATIC; PNEUMATIC PRESSURE; PNEUMATIC ROBOT; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION; SIMPLE STRUCTURES; SMALL-DIAMETER PIPES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 49249139693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBIO.2007.4522183     Document Type: Conference Paper

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