New approach to the self-localization of autonomous sewer inspection robots

2010 World Automation Congress, WAC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nassiraei, Amir A F ^a   Honda, Masayoshi ^a   Ishii, Kazuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pipe inspection; Robot self localization; Sewer pipe robot

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; MOBILE ROBOT PLATFORMS; NEW APPROACHES; PIPE INSPECTION; ROBOT CONTROLS; SELF-LOCALIZATION; SEWER INSPECTION; SEWER PIPE ROBOT; STATE ASSESSMENT;

DAMAGE DETECTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; PIPE; SENSORS; SEWERS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 78651448415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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