HEX-PIDERIX: A six-legged walking climbing robot to perform inspection tasks on vertical surfaces

Xochitl Yamile Sandoval-Castro, Mario A. Gracia-Murillo, Jonny Paul Zavala-De Paz, Eduardo Castillo-Castaneda

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Abstract

This paper presents the kinematic analysis of the climbing walking robot Hex-piderix. It has 3DOF in each of the six legs, a suction cup for climbing vertical surfaces on each limb tip and a locomotion algorithm. The authors proposed a computer vision system that uses image analysis for inspection employing a mounted camera. It proposes an invariant method for illumination to detect cracks on surfaces. Imagesare improved dimming the light and calculating a threshold by binarizing it using the Otsu method. Finally, morphological operations are applied to highlight the crack.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNature-Inspired Mobile Robotics
PublisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co.
Pages399-407
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9789814525534
ISBN (Print)9789814525527
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

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