At the present time, water and sewer pipe networks are predominantly inspected manually.
In the near future, smart cities will perform intelligent autonomous monitoring of buried pipe …

The demands for infrastructure inspection using autonomous robots have noticeably
increased, and the market is expected to grow accordingly. One of the advantages is that …

Pipelines are backbone of the transportation of gases and liquids such as oil, gasoline,
water, and sewage. However, pipelines are constantly aging and sustaining damage, which …

Condition assessment of underground infrastructures such as pipe networks is crucial for
aging cities around the globe. Recent development of robotic technologies facilitated …

Localizing mobile robotic nodes in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a complex
problem, particularly in dynamic, unstructured scenarios where traditional cameras and …

Conventional underground gas pipeline equipment can only map straight pipelines at close
distances. As such, a dual-robot mapping technique is proposed in this study, based on …

High accuracy pose estimation with high data rate of an aerial construction robot is the
prerequisite for aerial construction robot control. A dynamic and motion constrained robust …

This study presents a spiral pipeline robot designed for detecting and preventing oil and gas
pipeline leakages. A comprehensive analysis of factors such as spiral angle, normal force …

Accurate, reliable, and efficient robot localization is essential for long‐term autonomous
robotic inspection of buried pipe networks. It is necessary for path planning and for locating …

In this article, we have reviewed the available positioning, localization and navigation
techniques for mobile robots. Different localization techniques based on diverse …