Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams
The inchworm in-pipe robot has the advantages of stable support, low walking resistance, and high flexibility. However, the gait motion of in-pipe robots relies on the precise coordination of three motors, which greatly increases the complexity of control. To solve this problem, an inchworm in-pipe...
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| description | The inchworm in-pipe robot has the advantages of stable support, low walking resistance, and high flexibility. However, the gait motion of in-pipe robots relies on the precise coordination of three motors, which greatly increases the complexity of control. To solve this problem, an inchworm in-pipe robot based on a multi-cam combination is proposed. The robot needs only one motor to achieve active support and bidirectional crawling for the pipe wall, mainly used for detecting straight pipelines, such as the main drainage pipeline. In order to obtain the periodic motion law and characteristics of the inchworm in-pipe robot, structure design, constraint analysis, and dynamic simulation were carried out on the robot. Finally, the principle prototype was tested in the transparent pipe, the test results indicate that the robot can achieve bidirectional creep under a single motor drive, which can simplify the control of gait motion for inchworm in-pipe robots. The average displacement errors for horizontal walking and vertical walking are 2.0% and 11.3%, respectively, due to factors such as gravity. Therefore, the robot can achieve a more accurate step distance in the horizontal pipe. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-000e4f06385d4264891dc2ada150d7142023-10-31T23:00:38ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-011111863911865110.1109/ACCESS.2023.332726910292862Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple CamsQizhi Xie0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8818-2026Song Cui1Peilin Cheng2Qiang Liu3School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, ChinaSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, ChinaSchool of Mechatronic Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, ChinaThe inchworm in-pipe robot has the advantages of stable support, low walking resistance, and high flexibility. However, the gait motion of in-pipe robots relies on the precise coordination of three motors, which greatly increases the complexity of control. To solve this problem, an inchworm in-pipe robot based on a multi-cam combination is proposed. The robot needs only one motor to achieve active support and bidirectional crawling for the pipe wall, mainly used for detecting straight pipelines, such as the main drainage pipeline. In order to obtain the periodic motion law and characteristics of the inchworm in-pipe robot, structure design, constraint analysis, and dynamic simulation were carried out on the robot. Finally, the principle prototype was tested in the transparent pipe, the test results indicate that the robot can achieve bidirectional creep under a single motor drive, which can simplify the control of gait motion for inchworm in-pipe robots. The average displacement errors for horizontal walking and vertical walking are 2.0% and 11.3%, respectively, due to factors such as gravity. Therefore, the robot can achieve a more accurate step distance in the horizontal pipe.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10292862/In-pipe robotinchwormsingle-drivecam-basedconstraint analysis |
| spellingShingle | Qizhi Xie Song Cui Peilin Cheng Qiang Liu Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams IEEE Access In-pipe robot inchworm single-drive cam-based constraint analysis |
| title | Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams |
| title_full | Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams |
| title_fullStr | Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams |
| title_short | Design of an In-Pipe Robot Coupled With Multiple Cams |
| title_sort | design of an in pipe robot coupled with multiple cams |
| topic | In-pipe robot inchworm single-drive cam-based constraint analysis |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10292862/ |
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