Pipe inspection robot
Pipe inspection robot
Pipelines inside of buildings to supply water or gas has complicated structure, and they must have maintenance regularly. For this maintenance, three dimensional maps of the pipelines have to be made, and the positions of the parts that should be fixed have to be identified inside of the pipelines. To accomplish this purpose, the pipe inspection robots made with soft matter have been studied and fabricated. These soft matter pipe inspection robots get thrust from the reaction force from the inner surface of the pipe when soft cilium deform elastically with the vibration of the motors with eccentric weights. This is the joint research with Koei Setsubi Kogyo Co., Ltd. at Yamagata prefecture in Japan. One of the soft matter pipe inspection robots was exhibited in International Robot Exhibition 2019 at Tokyo Big Sight and gather many reputations.
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