Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst-Michael Groß
Head of Department
e-mail: fg-nikr@tu-ilmenau.de
phone: +49 3677 692858
Postal address:
Ilmenau University of Technology
Faculty of Computer Science and Automation
Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab
P.O. Box 10 05 65
98684 Ilmenau
Visiting address:
Helmholtzplatz 5 (Zusebau)
Room 3060
98693 Ilmenau
Site plan
The use of tethered, remote controlled robots for the inspection of drinking water pipelines has become more and more established. In this context, it is particularly important that up-do-date knowledge in robotics is taken into account in order to increase the efficiency of the inspection processes while reducing the costs. The RODIAR project aims to provide the technical basis for the subsequent development of a production-ready, fully autonomously inspection robot.
To prevent such severe pipe bursts, the RODIAR project aims to develop an autonomous inspection robot for the detection of weak spots within fresh water pipelines. Therefore, the robot has to withstand pressures of more than 15 bar.
