Small unmanned airborne systems to support oil and gas pipeline monitoring and mapping

Gómez, Cristina; Green, David R.

doi:10.1007/s12517-017-2989-x

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“…Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a highly agile and fast approach to the inspection of both internal and external features of oil and gas facilities (DuBose, 2017;Gómez & Green, 2017). In the case of outdoor deployment, drones can be used to inspect tanks, pipelines and refineries as a whole, as demonstrated by English (2015) and Shukla, Xiaoqian, and Karki (2016).…”

Section: Key Technology Development Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomous robots for harsh environments: a holistic overview of current solutions and ongoing challenges

Wong

Yang

Yan

et al. 2018

Systems Science & Control Engineering

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This paper presents a holistic overview of robotics and autonomous systems developed for applications in harsh environments where interactions with robots are difficult to model due to reasons such as dynamics, uncertainty, complexity and unpredictability. Robots of different characteristics and designs are required to perform different tasks within these environments. A number of classes of robots emerge as particularly favoured by the research community for solving challenging problems in difficult environments. Key examples of these deployments are studied with an analysis on how high-level autonomy is a key issue that must be addressed. The surveyed work suggest that the lack of observable autonomy in many systems are a consequence of both the complexity of the problem and the lack of proven reliability of autonomous solutions for applications that demand high success rates. This paper provides a broad and general overview of autonomous robots deployed in harsh environments and the commonalities of the challenges and existing solutions across application areas, including oil and gas inspection, space exploration, deep-sea operations and search and rescue. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Key Technology Development Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomous robots for harsh environments: a holistic overview of current solutions and ongoing challenges

Wong

Yang

Yan

et al. 2018

Systems Science & Control Engineering

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“…However, the prospects of deploying UAS have attracted many other domains including, but not limited to, photogrammetry and surveying (Colomina and Molina, 2014), agriculture , environmental monitoring (Ni et al, 2017), entertainment (Quiroz and Kim, 2017), forestry (Casbeer et al, 2005), construction surveillance (Javier Irizarry and Dayana Bastos Costa, 2016), infrastructure protection (Gómez and Green, 2017) and rescue operations (Efrat et al, 2012). These various application domains, coupled with the increasing R&D activities regarding UAS leads to a positive loop of productivity.…”

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Parcel Delivery in an Urban Environment Using Unmanned Aerial Systems: A Vision Paper

Anbaroğlu

2017

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:This vision paper addresses the challenges and explores the avenue of solutions regarding the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for transporting parcels in urban areas. We have already witnessed companies' delivering parcels using UAS in rural areas, but the challenge of utilizing them for an urban environment is eminent. Nevertheless, the increasing research on the various aspects of UAS, including their battery life, resistance to harsh weather conditions and sensing its environment foresee their common usage in the logistics industry, especially in an urban environment. In addition, the increasing trend on 3D city modelling offer new directions regarding realistic as well as light 3D city models that are easy to modify and distribute. Utilizing UAS for transporting parcels in an urban environment would be a disruptive technological achievement as our roads will be less congested which would lead to less air pollution as well as wasted money and time. In addition, parcels could potentially be delivered much faster. This paper argues, with the support of the state-of-the-art research, that UASs will be used for transporting parcels in an urban environment in the coming decades.

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“…One important application area that needs more principled design considerations is the use of drones for first-person inspection tasks including inspection of roofs [24], power lines [25], and other major infrastructure like oil pipelines [7]. Such tasks require an operator to navigate to the site of interest, then determine where the object of interest is at this site, and then move from global, high-level control of the drone to more low-level control of the camera on the drone.…”

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The Impact of Different Levels of Autonomy and Training on Operators’ Drone Control Strategies

Zhou

Zhu

Minwoo

et al. 2019

J. Hum.-Robot Interact.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have extensive applications in civilian rescue and military surveillance realms. A common drone control scheme among such applications is human supervisory control, in which human operators remotely navigate drones and direct them to conduct high-level tasks. However, different levels of autonomy in the control system and different operator training processes may affect operators' performance in task success rate and efficiency. An experiment was designed and conducted to investigate such potential impacts. The results showed us that a dedicated supervisory drone control interface tended toward increased operator successful task completion as compared to an enhanced teleoperation control interface, although this difference was not statistically significant. In addition, using Hidden Markov Models, operator behavior models were developed to further study the impact of operators' drone control strategies as a function of differing levels of autonomy. These models revealed that people with both supervisory and enhanced teleoperation control training were not able to determine the right control action at the right time to the same degree that people with just training in the supervisory control mode. Future work is needed to determine how trust plays a role in such settings.

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Small unmanned airborne systems to support oil and gas pipeline monitoring and mapping

Cited by 80 publications

References 50 publications

Autonomous robots for harsh environments: a holistic overview of current solutions and ongoing challenges

Autonomous robots for harsh environments: a holistic overview of current solutions and ongoing challenges

Parcel Delivery in an Urban Environment Using Unmanned Aerial Systems: A Vision Paper

The Impact of Different Levels of Autonomy and Training on Operators’ Drone Control Strategies

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