Development of the untethered in-pipe inspection robot for natural gas pipelines

Author

Jae Jun Park ; Jeong Whan Moon ; Hyoungkwon Kim ; Seong Cheol Jang ; Dae Gyeong Kim ; Kitak Ahn ; Sung Moo Ryew ; Hyungpil Moon ; Hyouk Ryeol Choi

Author_Institution

KNR Syst. Inc., Yongin, South Korea

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 30 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

58

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the robot developed for inspection of 16” natural pipelines, applying a novel mechanism. To travel along various obstacles such as vertical pipes, elbows and branches, this system consists of several modules with articulated bodies connected by active joint modules. And the robot contains battery modules and wireless communication modules so that it can work as a standalone system without cables connected from control station. Additionally, the robot is designed to work in the pressurized pipe up to maximum 5Mpa and to overcome adverse environment like steel dust, water and mud.

Keywords

inspection; mobile robots; natural gas technology; pipelines; service robots; active joint modules; articulated body; battery modules; control station; natural gas pipelines; obstacles; pressurized pipe; standalone system; untethered in-pipe inspection robot; wireless communication modules; in-pipe robot; inspection; untethered;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1195-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/URAI.2013.6677470

Filename

6677470