Design, modeling and prototyping of a pipe inspection robot

22nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, ISARC 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

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Author keywords

In pipe inspection; Nondestructive test; Robot mechanism

Indexed keywords

IN-PIPE INSPECTION; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TEST; PIPE INSPECTION ROBOT; ROBOT MECHANISM;

NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PIPING SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84862512568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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