PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Marcinko, Peter
AU  - Virgala, Ivan
AU  - Miková, Ľubica
AU  - Prada, Erik
AU  - Kelemenová, Tatiana
AU  - Kelemen, Michal
AU  - Varga, Martin
TI  - Chimney Cleaning and Inspection Robot
DP  - 2019 Sep 27
TA  - Acta Mechanica Slovaca
PG  - 6--9
VI  - 23
IP  - 3
AID - 10.21496/ams.2019.016
IS  - 13352393
AB  - The paper deals with robot, which locomotes inside chimney for cleaning and inspection purposes. Carbon particles are in sediments on inner chimney wall. Chimney has to be periodically cleaned and inspected because of fire risk. Paper introduces concept of service robot for this application. Tracked locomotion has been selected as principle of locomotion inside chimney.