Oil Pipelines/Water Pipeline Crawling Robot for Leakage Detection/Cleaning of Pipes

Abstract

Drive control system plays important roles in pipeline robot. In order to inspect the flaw and corrosion of seabed crude oil pipeline, an original mobile pipeline robot with crawler drive unit, power and monitor unit, central control unit, and ultrasonic wave inspection device is developed. Considering the limited space, a compact hardware system is designed based on an ARM processor with controllers. With made-to-order protocol for the crawl robot, an intelligent drive control system is developed. The implementation of the crawl robot demonstrates that the presented drive control scheme can meet the motion control requirements of the underwater pipeline crawl robot.