A new approach to the sewer pipe inspection: Fully autonomous mobile robot "KANTARO"

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4088-4093

  Nassiraei, Amir A F ^a,b   Kawamura, Yoshinori ^a   Ahrary, Alireza ^a,b   Mikuriya, Yoshikazu ^a   Ishii, Kazuo ^b  

^a FAIS Robotics Development Support Office   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FAULT DETECTION; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; INSPECTION; NAVIGATION; PIPE JOINTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SEWAGE; SEWERS;

ANNUAL CONFERENCE; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; COMMERCIAL ROBOTS; FISH-EYE; HUMAN OPERATORS; INSPECTION METHODS; INSPECTION ROBOT; LASER SCANNER; NEW APPROACHES; PIPE BENDS; PROTOTYPE ROBOTS; SEWAGE PIPES; SEWER PIPES; STATE OF THE ARTS; STRAIGHT PIPES;

PIPE;

EID: 50249139211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2006.348124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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