• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.167-173
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• 2020

A lot of research has been done on pipe climbing robots to investigate the aging pipe structures of nuclear power plants and petrochemical plants. Nevertheless, most of the research on pipe climbing robots focused on the structural design and foundational motion control of pipe climbing robots. So, For the operator to control the pipe climbing robot, it has many difficulties to climb the pipe and avoid obstacles by manual operation. In this paper, propose an algorithm that recognizes obstacle by using camera images of pipe climbing robots, estimates the distance between pipe climbing robots and obstacles, and determines the position where pipe climbing robots can catch pipes to avoid obstacles between pipes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.323-324
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.291-292
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• 2013

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1041-1063
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• 2014

This work introduces a two-module robotic pipe inspection system with ultrasonic NDE device to evaluate the integrity of pipe structures. The proposed robotic platform has high mobility. The two module mobile robot platform overcomes pipe obstacle structures such as elbow, or T-branch joints by cooperative maneuvers. Also, it can climb up the straight pipeline at a fast speed due to the wheel driven mechanism. For inspection of pipe structure, SH-waves generated by EMAT are applied with additional signal processing methods. A wavelet transform is implemented to extract a meaningful and specific signal from the superposed SH-wave signals. Intensity ratio which is normalized the defect signals intensity by the maximum intensity of directly transmitted signals in the wavelet transforms spectrum is applied to evaluate defects quantitatively. It is experimentally verified that the robotic ultrasonic inspection system with EMAT is capable of non-destructive inspection and evaluation of defects in pipe structure successfully by applying signal processing method based on wavelet transform.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.1653-1655
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• 2012

5축 관절로 구성된 파이프 등반용 로봇을 마스터 장비를 이용하여 반자동 원격제어하기 위해서는 마스터와 로봇 사이에 이동 좌표를 매칭 시켜주는 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 로봇에 장착된 모터의 움직임을 기구학적으로 풀어냄으로써 마스터 장비의 좌표계를 로봇 모터의 구동과 직접 매칭시키기 위한 과정을 수학적으로 기술한다.