Design and Lab Experience for a Pipeline Service Robot in Space Orbital Stations

Tao Zheng; Hui Li; Qiang Huang; Xiang Wang; Marco Ceccarelli; Zhihong Jiang; Pingli Wang; Sanliang Wang; Yanyan Zhao; Xiao Liu

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48989-2_49

Design and Lab Experience for a Pipeline Service Robot in Space Orbital Stations

Tao Zheng, Hui Li^*, Qiang Huang, Xiang Wang, Marco Ceccarelli, Zhihong Jiang, Pingli Wang, Sanliang Wang, Yanyan Zhao, Xiao Liu

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The inspection and maintenance of ventilating pipelines in space orbital stations is difficult and time-consuming for astronauts. In this paper, a novel pipeline robot with three parts is proposed to replace astronauts in inspecting ventilating pipeline. An experimental testbed is designed to test the operation feasibility of pipeline robot in pipelines with different cross-sections and shapes, including cases with obstacles and ruptures. Ground test results show that the proposed BIT pipeline robot is able to move smoothly in most of pipelines with different cross-sections and shapes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	456-465
Number of pages	10
Journal	Mechanisms and Machine Science
Volume	84
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48989-2_49
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Design
Lab testing
Pipeline robot
Space robotics

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