Title :
Prototype of high speed pipe inspection robot
Author :
Jones, Maxwell ; Bailey, D. ; Liqiong Tang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Adv. Technol., Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand
Abstract :
This paper presents the development of a high speed pipe inspection robot using structured light to measure erosion inside a pipe. Several factors influencing the speed are considered and an implementation based on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) is presented. This is a low power approach that would allow the processing of the high resolution images to be done in real time on the robot, with high processing speeds and rapid data reduction ideal for wireless transmission.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; field programmable gate arrays; image resolution; industrial robots; inspection; pipes; production engineering computing; robot vision; FPGA; field programmable gate array; high resolution image processing; high speed pipe inspection robot; pipe erosion; rapid data reduction; structured light; wireless transmission; Cameras; Clocks; Field programmable gate arrays; Inspection; Lasers; Robots; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice (M2VIP), 2012 19th International Conference
Conference_Location :
Auckland
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1643-9
