Design, Manufacturing, and Laboratory Testing of Peristaltic Pipe-Surveillance Robot

Abstract:

The research trend of moving robot mechanism in this decade begins to evolve toward to bio robot mechanism. Bio robot mechanism is objectification of a mechanism that emulates the animal’s gait (bio mimicry). The development such as mechanism has resulted various type of robot that able to move inside the pipeline. The technic of this movement imitates earthworm’s motion, which the traction effect produced from peristaltic movement such as swallowing movement in the digestive organs. Given the way of this movement is similar to peristaltic movement in the digestive organs, so the robot usually called peristaltic robot. Generally, these robots consist of elastic segments that deformed in both longitudinal and transverse direction. Each segment able to deforms alternately to generate wave pattern. These consecutive moving of contract and elongate will produce a movement. This manuscript described design, manufacturing, and laboratory test robot in the pipe tube. The results of early test obtained the value of traction is 142 N and the ability test to climb obtained the maximum tilt angle of pipe about 42° with the slip grade of 37%. This study results peristaltic robot that has capability to crawl inside the pipe tube. It is expected; in the future robot can be used to inspection and maintenance of pipe in oil and gas industry

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 660)
• Pages: 904-908
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.660.904
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Eko Agus Nugroho*, Pulung Nurprasetio, Djoko Suharto, Zainal Abidin
• Keywords: Biomimicry, Legless Mechanism, Peristaltic Robot, Pipe Surveillance

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