Development of a dustproof and waterproof snake robot covering the whole body with a sponge rubber tube

Abstract

Snake robots have possibility to move inside of a pipe by using helical rolling motion as well as to clean the pipe. If a snake robot cleans the inside of a pipe, we need to apply dustproof and waterproof to the snake robot. However, our snake robot did not have dustproof and waterproof yet. Therefore, in this study, we constructed a new snake robot having dustproof and waterproof.