• DocumentCode
    2576044
  • Title

    Robotized system for in-pipe inspection

  • Author

    Costa, Ramon R. ; Dos Reis, Ney R S ; Hsu, Liu ; Peixoto, Alessandro J. ; Gomes, Luiz P C S

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    9-11 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    1021
  • Abstract
    This paper reports the development and experimental evaluation of robotized system devised to perform two kinds of measurements inside a pipeline: the thickness of the internal wall painting layer and the internal radius. The thickness measurement allows the inspection of the painting layer quality and, by measuring several radii, it is possible to estimate that pipeline transversal section shape. The proposed scheme is shown to yield very satisfactory results on an actual pipeline.
  • Keywords
    civil engineering; inspection; instrumentation; mobile robots; painting; pipelines; internal radius thickness; internal wall painting layer thickness; pipeline inspection; pipeline instrumentation; pipeline internal painting; pipeline robot; pipeline transversal section shape; robotized system; Inspection; Instruments; Mechanical sensors; Painting; Pipelines; Robotics and automation; Robots; Shape measurement; Tactile sensors; Thickness measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Electronics, 2003. ISIE '03. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7912-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIE.2003.1267963
  • Filename
    1267963