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Controlling a multi-joint robot for autonomous sewer inspection

Scholl et al., 2000

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16730577149138320852
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Scholl K
Kepplin V
Berns K
Dillmann R
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Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Symposia Proceedings (Cat. No. 00CH37065)

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In this paper a multi-joint robot for sewer inspection tasks is presented. In order to increase the operating scope the robot has been designed to run round or over obstacles, to follow sewage branches and is operated with no wire attached to it. As a result of the wireless …
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