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Articulated wheeled in-pipe inspection robots for complex pipeline navigation
Ritsumeikan University's robotics laboratory develops the AIRo series of articulated wheeled pipeline inspection robots designed to navigate bent pipes, T-branches, and vertical sections. The robots use passive and active compliant joints with omni-wheels and spherical wheels for orientation control in confined pipe environments.
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- HQ
- Kusatsu, Japan
Milestones
Shadow-based operation assistant system for pipeline inspection published in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
Published design of multilink-articulated wheeled pipeline inspection robot using passive elastic joints in Advanced Robotics journal
AIRo-II presented at IROS 2016 with capability to pass through bent, branch, and vertical pipes
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