Hierarchical Controller for Autonomous Tracking of Buried Oil and Gas Pipelines and Geotagging of Buried Pipeline Structure

Sudevan, Vidya; Shukla, Amit; Karki, Hamad

doi:10.1109/cis-ram47153.2019.9095799

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“…In Ref. [36], the authors state that pipelines worldwide are exposed to extreme environmental conditions. Because of this, the maintenance process is vital for this industry to operate efficiently.…”

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A Scoping Review of Pipeline Maintenance Methodologies Based on Industry 4.0

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The fourth industrial revolution was a milestone at the industrial level. It forced most industries to evolve technically and for their collaborators to prepare and advance together with technology; the oil industry was no exception. It develops its activities in dangerous and dynamic environments and needs to protect its human resources, equipment, and infrastructure. This article presents a scoping review, based on the PRISMA guidelines, of pipeline maintenance methodologies based on Industry 4.0. From the first collection of 123 articles from prestigious databases such as SpringerLink, MDPI, Scopus, IEEEXplore and ACM, a final sample of 31 articles was obtained. Here, technologies that enhance preventive and predictive maintenance systems are discussed. The results show that predictive maintenance compared to preventive maintenance has a percentage difference in upkeep time optimization of 38% in the last five years. This difference was corroborated with a Student’s t-test for independent samples, with a significance of 0.023. Likewise, the most used technologies were analyzed, with artificial intelligence standing out with 45.16%.

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A Scoping Review of Pipeline Maintenance Methodologies Based on Industry 4.0

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Autonomous Inspection System for Anomaly Detection in Natural Gas Pipelines

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Sudevan

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Oil and gas industry operates according to stringent standards that primarily strive to keep the pipeline transportation and other related operations efficiently while maintaining and practicing high standards of industrial safety. Due to which, the routine inspection and maintenance of underground/overground structures became a challenging process. Over the years, performance based integrity management programmes became popular and it have been implemented for managing the safety and environmental risks associated with hazardous oil or gas pipelines. Pipeline safety and integrity team must verify, repair and certify the integrity of pipelines that could leak or failure in the future. Internal inspection using pipeline inspection gauges (PIG) are considered expensive and the need for surface preparation procedures makes the inspection operations time consuming. Whereas, external survey operations are carried out by highly trained and certified inspection/survey team where they manually identify pipeline leakages or any visible damages. External manual inspection is conducted using various handheld devices and recorded data is later analyzed to identify and locate the possible anomalies. Relatively high surrounding temperatures and uneven terrain makes the manual survey a mundane mission. The shortcomings and the challenges of the conventional external inspection and survey mechanisms are tackled by introducing a mobile robotic platform equipped with non-invasive magnetometric diagnosis (NIMD) system which allows non-contact anomaly detection from a distance of up to 2-3m from the underground pipeline metal core without unearthing or any surface treatments such as coating removal that are performed in the conventional techniques. The proposed autonomous pipeline inspection system has various sensors that can precisely locate, navigate and detect the underground pipeline faults. A novel hierarchical controller which was developed in our previous studies was utilized and employed for the navigation of vehicle over the buried infrastructures. The effectiveness and the performance of autonomous system was tested on real field conditions and the true ability of the system was showcased to detect the underground pipeline anomalies even in extreme environmental conditions.

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Hierarchical Controller for Autonomous Tracking of Buried Oil and Gas Pipelines and Geotagging of Buried Pipeline Structure

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

A Scoping Review of Pipeline Maintenance Methodologies Based on Industry 4.0

A Scoping Review of Pipeline Maintenance Methodologies Based on Industry 4.0

Autonomous Inspection System for Anomaly Detection in Natural Gas Pipelines

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