Piping

Development and application of wall-climbing robots

Yan Wang, Liu Shuliang, Zhuang Xu, Zhao Yan-zheng, Hao Shao

Citations: 128 • 2003

Design and Modeling of a Parallel-Pipe-Crawling Pneumatic Soft Robot

Zhiyuan Zhang, Xueqian Wang, Songtao Wang, Deshan Meng, Bin Liang

Citations: 97 • 2019

Visual and nondestructive evaluation inspection of live gas mains using the Explorer™ family of pipe robots

Hagen Schempf, E. Mutschler, Alan Gavaert, George Skoptsov, W.B. Crowley

Citations: 92 • 2010

Explorer: Untethered Real-Time Gas Main Assessment Robot System

Hagen Schempf, George C. Vradis

Citations: 68 • 2003

A compact, maneuverable, underwater robot for direct inspection of nuclear power piping systems

Anirban Mazumdar, Martin Lozano, Aaron Fittery, H. Harry Asada

Citations: 59 • 2012

Robotic pipeline wall thickness evaluation for dense nondestructive testing inspection

Jaime Valls Miró, Nalika Ulapane, Lei Shi, Dave Hunt, Michael Behrens

Citations: 56 • 2018

Wireless Piping Inspection Vehicle Using Magnetic Adsorption Force

Kosuke NAGAYA, Tomohiko YOSHINO, M. Katayama, Iwanori Murakami

Citations: 56 • 2012

Autonomous mobile robot in pipe for piping operations

Masahiro Muramatsu, N. Namiki, R. Koyama, Y. Suga

Citations: 48 • 2002

Aircraft wheel testing with machine-cooled HTS SQUID gradiometer system

R. Hohmann, M. Maus, D. Lomparski, M. Grüneklee, Y. Zhang, Hans‐Joachim Krause, Herbert Bousack, A. I. Braginski

Citations: 43 • 1999

Development of an actively adaptable in-pipe robot

Jungwan Park, T.H. Kim, Hyunseok Yang

Citations: 37 • 2009

Mechanisms of Autonomous Pipe-Surface Inspection Robot with Magnetic Elements

Masayuki Suzuki, Toshihiro YUKAWA, Yuichi Satoh, Okano Hideharu

Citations: 34 • 2006

Self-localization and 3-D model construction of pipe by earthworm robot equipped with omni-directional rangefinder

Atsushi Yamashita, Kenki Matsui, Ryosuke Kawanishi, Toru Kaneko, Taro Murakami, Hayato Omori, Taro Nakamura, Hajime Asama

Citations: 29 • 2011

Self-Excited Vibration Valve That Induces Traveling Waves in Pneumatic Soft Mobile Robots

Yuji Miyaki, Hideyuki TSUKAGOSHI

Citations: 29 • 2020

3-D shape measurement of pipe by range finder constructed with omni-directional laser and omni-directional camera

Kenki Matsui, Atsushi Yamashita, Toru Kaneko

Citations: 29 • 2010

Long-mover: Flexible Tube In-pipe Inspection Robot for Long Distance and Complex Piping

Kentaro Miyasaka, Ginjiro Kawano, Hideyuki TSUKAGOSHI

Citations: 27 • 2018

Remotely controlled prehensile locomotion of a two-module 3D pipe-climbing robot

Sang-Chul Han, Jaekyu Ahn, Hyungpil Moon

Citations: 27 • 2016

Electromechanical design for an electrically powered, actively balanced one leg planar robot

K.V. Papantoniou

Citations: 27 • 2002

Mechanical Design Optimization of a Piping Inspection Robot

Damien Chablat, Swaminath Venkateswaran, Frédéric Boyer

Citations: 26 • 2018

Vision-Based Pipe Monitoring Robot for Crack Detection Using Canny Edge Detection Method as an Image Processing Technique

Nur Mutiara Syahrian, Pola Risma, Tresna Dewi

Citations: 25 • 2017

Robotic systems for cleaning and inspection of large concrete pipes

José Saenz, Norbert Elkmann, Thomas Stuerze, Sven Kutzner, Heiko Althoff

Citations: 24 • 2010