Design and Development of Robotic Sewer Inspection Equipment Controlled by Embedded Systems

Author

Singh, S.P. ; Verma, Ashish ; Shrivastava, Ajay K.

Author_Institution

Krishna Inst. of Eng. & Tech., Ghaziabad

fYear

2008

fDate

16-18 July 2008

Firstpage

1317

Lastpage

1320

Abstract

The presently available sewer inspection equipments based on CCD cameras have limitations and problems, as it requires the sewer lines to be drained. In this paper an automatic robotic sewer inspection equipment is proposed which uses ultrasonic sensors instead of CCD cameras. Hence it can work in water filled pipes without any need to drain it. Its working is controlled by embedded system. This can detect the blockage position and its type. The system can be further enhanced to clean the blockage also.

Keywords

embedded systems; pipelines; robot vision; service robots; CCD cameras; automatic robotic sewer inspection equipment; embedded systems; sewer inspection equipments; ultrasonic sensors; water filled pipes; Automatic control; Cameras; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Control systems; Embedded system; Inspection; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Embedded Systems; Robotics; Sewer Blockage Detection; Sewer Maintenance; Sewer Pipeline Inspection; Ultrasonic Sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, 2008. ICETET '08. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nagpur, Maharashtra

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3267-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3267-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETET.2008.120

Filename

4580109