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Pipeline inspection has become a crucial aspect in pipeline integrity management. Precise and reliable inspection data ensures environmental as well as public safety. Detecting defects in the pipeline components and maintaining good condition inside the pipelines are challenging tasks for human professionals. Moreover, going inside remote areas in a pipeline is not only risky but also can be life threatening in some cases. In this paper, a prototype of a pipeline inspection robot is designed and developed to trek through inconvenient areas inside a pipe with the adaptability to adjust inside different shaped pipes keeping in mind the safety measures. The ultrasonic sensor provides a graphical measuring technique to assess the amount of scale gathered in the pipeline’s surface and detect GPS location with live streaming. DC geared motors deliver the prerequisite torque while Raspberry Pi operates as a controlling interface. The robot’s design as well as control interface provide convenient as well as secure entry to the narrower and remote areas in a pipeline system.
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Shaikat, A.S., Hussein, M.R., Tasnim, R. (2021). Design and Development of a Pipeline Inspection Robot for Visual Inspection and Fault Detection. In: Pan, I., Mukherjee, A., Piuri, V. (eds) Proceedings of Research and Applications in Artificial Intelligence. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1355. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1543-6_23
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