Title :
A novel robot system for surface inspection and diameter measurement of large size pipes
Author :
Zhang, Xu ; Ma, Zi ; Hu, Ying ; Huang, Jin
Author_Institution :
Autom. Res. Center, Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian
Abstract :
A novel robot system for large size in-pipe surface inspection is presented. The proposed system is suitable to the large size pipes with diameter from Phi580 mm to Phi1000 mm. The accuracy of the system is so high that the measurement error is within 5/1000 millimeter. The equipment initialization can be implemented automatically for various objects with different sizes due to its intelligent design. The rate of data scanning and processing is so fast that the inspection report about ellipticity and roughness etc. can be on line offered.
Keywords :
design; diameter measurement; industrial robots; inspection; pipes; data processing; data scanning; diameter measurement; equipment initialization; in-pipe surface inspection; intelligent design; robot system; Inspection; Manufacturing; Mobile robots; Reverse engineering; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Size measurement; Surface reconstruction; Vibration measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Informatics, 2008. INDIN 2008. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Daejeon
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2170-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1935-4576
DOI :
10.1109/INDIN.2008.4618380
