Robotic intelligent vision and control for tunnel inspection and evaluation - The ROBINSPECT EC project

Loupos, Konstantinos; Amditis, Angelos; Stentoumis, Christos; Chrobocinski, Philippe; Victores, Juan G.; Wietek, Max; Panetsos, Panagiotis; Roncaglia, Alessandro; Camarinopoulos, Stephanos; Kalidromitis, Vassilis; Bairaktaris, D.; Komodakis, Nikos; López, Rafael Lemuz

doi:10.1109/rose.2014.6952986

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“…With the NTD benefit of visual inspection [2], defect and default could be detected and will increase during pipeline operational times. Using the NDT technique in this study offers additional qualities to the robot capacities [14]. Anyway, it is important to persistently lessen the hazards caused by the production, transport and storage of chemical.…”

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Design and Development of an Inspection Robot for Oil and Gas Applications

Hajjaj¹,

Khalid²

2018

IJET

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Pipeline or mass transport line are the chief applications which are typically involved in the oil and gas industries. After various background studies, the pipeline involved in such industries comes from a high technology design and material of use. Hence, inspection and maintenance must be done frequently to ensure the pipeline can be used in an excellent working state. The inspection on pipeline must be done before and after its maintenance. However, it is difficult to inspect within the pipe to ensure it is in good condition. Currently, various new types of technology are used for inspection purposes specifically by means of the Non-Destructive Testing, but it highly costly. Thus, this project focuses on the design and development of an inspection robot to perform a pipeline inspection. Some applications that can accommodate to the designing of a robot is that the robot is able to manoeuvre inside the pipeline wirelessly and give a visual interface while proceeding it. Therefore, this project shows the development processes included in the design and development of an inspection robot for the oil and gas applications.

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Design and Development of an Inspection Robot for Oil and Gas Applications

Hajjaj¹,

Khalid²

2018

IJET

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“…The research on autonomous mobile robots developed to navigate in special indoor environments spans from general exploration tasks [5] to special applications such as fire fighting in tunnels [6] or archaeological exploration [7].…”

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Design of a Mobile Robot for Air Ducts Exploration

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This work presents the solutions adopted for the design and the implementation of an autonomous wheeled robot developed for the exploration and mapping of air ventilation ducts. The hardware is based on commercial off-the-shelf devices, including sensors, motors, processing devices and interfaces. The mechanical chassis was designed from scratch to meet a trade-off between small size and available volume to host the components. The software stack is based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). Special attention was dedicated to the design of the mobility strategy, which must take into account some constraints and issues that are specific to the considered application, such as the relatively small size of ducts, the need to detect and avoid possible holes on the floor of the duct and other unusual obstacles and the unavailability of external reference frameworks for localization. The main contribution of this paper lies in the design, implementation and experimentation of the overall system.

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“…However, many systems are developed for more detailed diagnosis, using additional sensors such as ultrasound, thermography, ground penetrating radar and mechanised hammer testing [e.g. [13][14].…”

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A Low-Cost Robotic System for the Efficient Visual Inspection of Tunnels

Stent¹,

Girerd²,

Long³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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We introduce a low-cost robotic system designed to enable the safe, objective and efficient visual inspection of tunnels. The system captures high resolution images and processes them to produce maps of tunnel linings that are suitable for detailed inspection.It is unique in that the total cost of hardware is an order of magnitude less than most existing systems while producing an equivalent or higher quality of output. The device makes use of consumer-grade digital cameras and high-power LEDs in a rotating rig, carried by a lightweight aluminium frame which is designed to reduce vibrations during data capture. It is portable and installable by hand and has a modular design, making it possible to adapt to different types of carriage units, tunnels and sensors.Within the paper, we share insight into features of the device's design, including lessons learned from trials of earlier prototypes and comparisons with alternative systems. Using field data gathered from a 2km utility tunnel, we demonstrate the use of our system as a means of visualising tunnel conditions through image mosaicing, cataloguing tunnel segments using barcode detection and improving the objectivity of visual condition surveys over time by the detection of sub-mm crack growth.We believe that our device is the first to provide comprehensive survey-quality data at such a low cost, making it very attractive as a tool for the improved visual monitoring of tunnels.

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Robotic intelligent vision and control for tunnel inspection and evaluation - The ROBINSPECT EC project

Cited by 20 publications

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Design and Development of an Inspection Robot for Oil and Gas Applications

Design and Development of an Inspection Robot for Oil and Gas Applications

Design of a Mobile Robot for Air Ducts Exploration

A Low-Cost Robotic System for the Efficient Visual Inspection of Tunnels

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