Ground Robots for Inspection and Monitoring: A State-of-the-Art Review

Abstract

The concept of mobile robotics has had great growth since the 60-70 decade, being created the Shakey robot as one of the first, followed by the Newt robot and the Hilare robot. In recent years, terrestrial robots have been increasing to a great extent, however, their use is limited due to their complexity and the lack of tools necessary to implement them in a physical prototype that would allow the corresponding tests to be carried out. That is why, this article is intended to make detailed documentation about terrestrial robots for inspection and monitoring, through which any researcher can have a detailed matrix about the existing terrestrial robots for inspection and monitoring to date. For adequate research, specialized search engines in research and robotics from the years 2016 to 2021 were used, from which a thorough selection of the most relevant research was made, leaving 86 selected. Finally, there is still a great variety of limitations to be able to make terrestrial inspection and monitoring robots that can help humanity in various aspects, such as search and rescue in disasters, support in medicine, and detailed exploration on different planets, which would allow humanity to continue to advance technologically so that they can replicate their skills in robots.