A Soft-Rigid Air-Propelled Pipe-Climbing Robot
Qingxiang Zhao Zhiyi Jiang Henry K. Chu Qingxiang Zhao Zhiyi Jiang Henry K. Chu
Complex pipeline network should be inspected regularly for safety. In general, these tasks are often completed by large pipe-climbing robots or customized equipment. Most of them are not effective, and cannot work on pipes with uncertain barriers. Moreover, some pipes are mounted in constrained scenarios, so bulky robots are not applicable. This paper presents a tethered soft-rigid pipe-climbing r...