Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
This paper presents a new method to advance and to carry wired sensors like a camera or washing hose inside narrow and curving pipelines, which is aimed at inspecting and cleaning inside the pipelines. To fulfill this request, two improvements were added to the conventional robot "adapting to different-diameter piping" and "making direction steering with a branch pipe" possible. In order to ascertain the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conducted a propulsion experiment in a pipe imitating the actual environment with an improved robot, realized stable forward and backward movement and direction steering while checking the camera image at the head.
