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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.
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This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2018YFB1305300 and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61733001, Grant 61873039, Grant U1713215, and U1913211.
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Zheng, T. et al. (2020). Design and Lab Experience for a Pipeline Service Robot in Space Orbital Stations. In: Zeghloul, S., Laribi, M., Sandoval Arevalo, J. (eds) Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics. RAAD 2020. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48989-2_49
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