A flat pipeline inspection robot with two wheel chains

Author

Kwon, Young-Sik ; Lee, Bae ; Whang, In-Cheol ; Kim, Whee-Kuk ; Yi, Byung-Ju

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Hanyang Univ., Ansan, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

9-13 May 2011

Firstpage

5141

Lastpage

5146

Abstract

This paper presents a new pipeline inspection robot that has multiple sensors for inspection of 80-100mm pipelines. The special feature of this robot is realization of driving and steering capability by using only two wheel chains. Compared to popularly employed pipeline robots using three wheel chains, the new design allows simple robot control and easy user interface, specially at T-branch. As another advantage, the flat shape of this robot allows mounting additional sensors on the both sides of the robot. The kinematics and three control modes are described. Finally, the performance of this robot system is verified by experimentation.

Keywords

chains; human-robot interaction; industrial robots; inspection; pipelines; sensors; service robots; steering systems; user interfaces; wheels; T-branch; driving capability; flat pipeline inspection robot; robot control; sensors; steering capability; two wheel chains; user interface; Cameras; Mobile robots; Pipelines; Robot vision systems; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-386-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979712

Filename

5979712