Design, Development, Dynamic Analysis, and Control of a Pipe Crawling Robot

by Amir H. Heidari, Mehran Mehrandezh, Homayoun Najja

A study in the modelling, evolution and analysis of the pipe crawling robot (carries out inspections on pipe systems, especially those that have a lot of bends, vertical sections and pipe branches) for applications in the nuclear power industry, refineries, chemical plants, petrochemical plants, the offshore industry, gas pipelines, the beverage industry and all types of pipe lines up to 500m long.