Project: Tube Crawler

I have occasional need to inspect long underground drainage culverts. Robots to do this task are hideously expensive, so I decided to make my own. This robot is designed to use off the shelf components such as RC truck axles and gearboxes, motors and other easily obtainable robotics bits, and will eventually have a blue robotics pressure hull up top.

This rover will be a tethered vehicle and will mainly go up and down dry or submerged tunnels in a straight line forward and backwards. It will eventually have an RC surface running mode. It could be adapted for wheel stearing easily if there becomes a need. As configured currently I expect it will be able to fit into 8" or 10" culverts.

This project is temporarily on hold pending a few things, but I will be returning to it. The next piece will be better seals for the motor arms, and then the front camera / light assembly and housing clamps for the pressure housing. the rear will have a tether attachment point for my existing ROV t