| Issue |
MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 51, 2016
2016 International Conference on Mechanical, Manufacturing, Modeling and Mechatronics (IC4M 2016)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 02006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Chapter 2: Design and Development of Engineering Devices | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20165102006 | |
| Published online | 06 April 2016 | |
Development of Pipe Holding Mechanism for Pipe Inspection Robot Using Flexible Pneumatic Cylinder
Department of Intelligent Mechanical Engineering, Okayama University of Science 1-1, Ridai-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan
a Corresponding author: akagi@are.ous.ac.jp
A pipe inspection robot is useful to reduce the inspection cost. In the previous study, a novel pipe inspection robot using a flexible pneumatic cylinder that can move forward along to the pipe by changing the robot’s body naturally was proposed and tested. In this paper, to improve its mobility for a corner of a pipe, the thin pipe holding mechanism using pneumatic bellows was proposed and tested. As a result of its driving test, the holding performance of the mechanism was confirmed.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.