Intracavity intervention is expected to become increasingly popular in medical practice for
both diagnosis and surgery. Wireless microrobots are employed in a wide range of …

Inspection of tube networks is an important process in the manufacturing and maintenance
of aircraft. Currently, borescopes are commonly used with limited success. To improve the …

Finding damage inside pipes is important for the inspection of pipes used in nuclear power
plants and chemical plants. A number of studies have investigated the mechanisms of an …

In the biomedical field, a wireless microrobot in a pipe which can move smoothly in water or
other aqueous mediums has been urgently demanded. In this paper, several methods of …

In-pipe micromachines are able to move in the pipe to inspect or to repair the pipe or other
special tasks. Pipe is as confined space ie this is constraint for micromachine dimensions …

This paper proposes a magnetic actuator of a new type that exhibits a very high thrusting
force and is capable of a reversible motion in a complex pipe. The magnetic actuator of the …

The paper concerns to area of in-pipe locomotion. Traditional conceptions of in-pipe
machines tend to wheels slipping or self-blocking. Several design stages of improved in …

The present paper proposes a novel cableless magnetic actuator that exhibits a very high
thrusting force and is capable of high speed locomotion in a thin pipe by means of a new …

This paper proposes a novel cableless magnetic actuator with a new propulsion module that
exhibits a very high thrusting force and is capable of locomotion in a thin pipe by means of a …

Friction Difference as Principle of Robot Locomotion Page 1 Journal of Automation and
Control, 2017, Vol. 5, No. 2, 50-53 Available online at http://pubs.sciepub.com/automation/5/2/4 …