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Area of Science:

  • Robotics
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Environmental Engineering

Background:

  • Current sewer pipe inspection relies on tethered robots with limited autonomy and accessibility.
  • Tethered robots face challenges including restricted travel distance, inability to access small pipes, and high operational costs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a miniaturized mobile robot for autonomous sewer pipe inspection.
  • To present an effective, stable, and low-computational autonomous control strategy for micro robots in pipe networks.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a miniaturized mobile robot with wheel-leg locomotion for pipes as small as 75 mm.
  • Implementation of an autonomous control strategy enabling navigation and decision-making without visual aids or extensive image processing.
  • Testing the control strategy through simulation and experiments in a laboratory pipe network.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated fully autonomous robot mobility in a sewer pipe network.
  • The robot successfully recognized local network configurations and made appropriate navigation decisions.
  • Exhaustive exploration of an unknown pipe network without missing sections and while avoiding obstacles was achieved.

Conclusions:

  • The developed autonomous control strategy compensates for the limitations of miniaturized robots (small size, low capacity, limited battery).
  • This represents a significant advancement towards fully autonomous inspection robot systems for sewer networks.
  • The system offers a cost-effective and efficient solution for inspecting small-diameter and complex pipe systems.