Technical Aspects Concerning a Robot Used for Checking the Sewer Pipes

The work shows the principles and techniques that were the base of conceiving the control equipment to drive the robot mechanism, to align the video camera used for the checking of the pipe and the way of taking over the video images on a computer. The driving of the robot moving system is done by means of direct current electric motors. The power supply and the robot’s controls are provided by means of an electric cable. The positioning of the video camera in the field of images taking is done by operator through a joystick. The human operator can monitor the position of the video camera by means of an indicator optic system realized with LED. The video images loaded in a computer memory have attached information about the pipe visited, the robot position into the pipe, data, the hour of inspection and will make reports about the sewer pipes state.