Title :
An Insect-eye Visual System for Pipeline Inspection
Author :
Wang, Zhelong ; Gu, Hong ; Wang, Hongwei
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Dalian Univ. of Technol.
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is to explore the concept of insect-eye as a concept to be applied to robotic vision, particularly for the internal inspection of pipeline systems. Limitation and difficulties of current using cameras for pipeline inspection are described and analyzed. Design of the insect-eye visual system is proposed to solve limitations of current single camera. Mechanical structure of insect-eye visual system, software requirements of insect-eye visual system, image data processing and transmission for the visual system are given in details
Keywords :
control engineering computing; image processing; robot vision; image data processing; image data transmission; insect-eye visual system; internal inspection; pipeline inspection; pipeline systems; robot vision; visual system design; Cameras; Inspection; Intelligent robots; Orbital robotics; Pipelines; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Service robots; Visual system; Water pollution; Insect eye; Robot vision; pipeline inspection;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0332-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2006.1713812
