PIRATE: Design and Implementation of Pipe Inspection Robot

Big pipelines and sewerage systems make our daily life easier and give us portability. But a long use of this system is facing problems. Identifying those problems is not easy because this system spreads like tree roots in a city or country. Problems like detecting pipeline leakage, sewerage damage, or sewerage jam are not that much easy. In this study, we present a pipeline inspection robot design and implementation to overcome this type of problems. Our developed model has the size and shape to go through the pipeline. This robot has the ability to pass through L-shaped, S-shaped, T-shaped angels with full control by its design and the controlling power. Inspection robots had the limitations of overcoming L and T shapes, and the proposed model will solve the previous limitations. Another big drawback of the previous robots was it had to carry on an optical fiber along with it to communicate but we use long-range wireless communication.