DocumentCode :
250185
Title :
MIT Leak Detector: An in-pipe leak detection robot
Author :
Chatzigeorgiou, Dimitris ; You Wu ; Youcef-Toumi, Kamal ; Ben-Mansour, Rached
Author_Institution :
Mech. Eng. Dept., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear :
2014
fDate :
May 31 2014-June 7 2014
Firstpage :
2091
Lastpage :
2091
Abstract :
In this work we present a new in-pipe leak detection robot, the MIT Leak Detector. The system performs autonomous leak detection in gas pipes in a reliable and robust fashion. Detection in based on the presence of a pressure gradient in the neighborhood of the leak. As the MIT Leak Detector travels through pipes, it picks up the pressure gradient in case of leaks via a carefully designed detector. In this work we demonstrate the performance of the system in a lab setup, which consists of 100mm ID pipes containing pressurized air.
Keywords :
industrial robots; leak detection; pipelines; MIT leak detector; autonomous gas pipe leak detection; in-pipe leak detection robot; pressure gradient; Detectors; Leak detection; Pipelines; Reliability; Robots; Water resources;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907144
Filename :
6907144
Link To Document :
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