TY - GEN
T1 - Advanced Pipe Inspection Robot using rotating probe and Image processing
AU - Oyabu, Ryuta
AU - Nishijima, Kentarou
AU - Wang, Zhicheng
AU - Ogai, Harutoshi
AU - Bhattacharya, Bishakh
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - Recently many drain pipes used for transportation of water and gas at the plants have become old. These pipes have many defects caused by corrosion and cracking and they cause serious accidents because of leakage, fire and blasts. Therefore, to forestall these accidents, we believe it is important to do drain pipe inspections and maintenance using drain pipe inspection robots. 'Rotating probe' and 'Image processing' are used for the method of inspecting pipe in this research. Then, the development of the Pipe Inspection Robot measures the irregularity and the form of the defect in pipe. Therefore, this robot using the rotating probe of this touch sensor is profitable.
AB - Recently many drain pipes used for transportation of water and gas at the plants have become old. These pipes have many defects caused by corrosion and cracking and they cause serious accidents because of leakage, fire and blasts. Therefore, to forestall these accidents, we believe it is important to do drain pipe inspections and maintenance using drain pipe inspection robots. 'Rotating probe' and 'Image processing' are used for the method of inspecting pipe in this research. Then, the development of the Pipe Inspection Robot measures the irregularity and the form of the defect in pipe. Therefore, this robot using the rotating probe of this touch sensor is profitable.
KW - Drain pipes
KW - Image processing
KW - Pipe Inspection Robot
KW - Rotating probe
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84866691271
SN - 9784990288051
T3 - Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB 16th'11
SP - 515
EP - 518
BT - Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB 16th'11
T2 - 16th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB '11
Y2 - 27 January 2011 through 29 January 2011
ER -