Purpose This paper aims to enlighten stakeholders about critical success factors (CSFs) in
develo** intelligent autonomous systems (IASs) by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) …

Soft robots have unique advantages over traditional rigid robots and have broad application
prospects in many fields, such as pipe inspections. Several of the reported pipe-crawling soft …

There is an increasing trend of using automated and robotic systems for the tasks that are
hazardous or inconvenient and dirty for humans. Sewers maintenance and cleaning is such …

Sustainability concepts should be adopted via new technologies to achieve the greatest
possible gains without compromising the objectives of projects. In this research, we …

Pipe robots have been gradually applied to regularly detect drainage pipelines in building to
ensure drainage system operating smoothly. However, mostly existing pipe robots hardly …

Pipeline is widely deployed in infrastructures, which raises a great demand of pipe-climbing
robots to provide pipe-inside inspecting and platform delivery. Soft pipe-climbing robots …

Utilization of robots for in-pipe maintenance considered as one of the most effective ways to
improve the pipeline operation. The specific condition and structure of a pipeline system is a …

The main objective of this paper is to develop a Friendly Sewage Cleaning Robot to remove
the blocks manually. To replace the human being in sewage cleaning by automated system …

In order to enhance the environmental adaptability of peristaltic soft-bodied pipe robots,
based on the nonlinear and hyperelastic characteristics of silicone rubber combined with the …

Cleaning-in-Place (CIP) is a crucial part to be automated in batch process industries. In
many Process industries after completion of a batch, the equipment cleaning is done by …