• 제목/요약/키워드: Pipe Climbing

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파이프 구조물 검사를 위한 파이프 등반 로봇의 장애물 회피 제어 연구 (A Study on the Obstacle Avoidance Control of Pipe Climbing Robot for Pipe Structure Inspection)

  • 이스라엘;이성욱;박종원
    • 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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    • 제20권6호
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2020
  • 원자력발전소와 석유화학의 노후화된 파이프 구조물을 검사를 위하여 파이프 등반 로봇에 많은 연구가 이루어졌다. 그러나 파이프 등반 로봇 연구에서는 대부분 파이프 등반 로봇의 구조 설계와 기본적인 동작 제어에 초점을 맞추고 제작되어, 작업자가 파이프 등반 로봇을 제어하기 위해서는 수동 조작으로 파이프를 등반 및 장애물 회피하기 위해 많은 어려움을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 파이프 등반 로봇의 카메라 영상을 이용하여 장애물을 인식하고 파이프 등반 로봇과 장애물 사이의 거리를 추정 및 파이프 등반 로봇이 파이프를 잡을 수 있는 위치를 결정하여 파이프 사이의 장애물을 회피 할 수 있는 알고리즘을 제안한다.

Realization of Nonlinear Driving Controller for Magnetic type Automatic Pipe-cutting Machine against Varying Gravity

  • Lee, Myung-Chul;Lee, Soon-Geul
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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    • pp.31.3-31
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    • 2001
  • In this paper, an automatic pipe-cutting machine that uses magnet to attach itself to pipe and performs unmanned cutting process is proposed. The machine uses magnetic force to prevent slip and to attach the machine to the pipe against gravity. The magnetic force is adjustable by changing the gap between the magnet and the pipe. During pipe cutting process, the gravity acting on the pipe-cutting machine widely varies nonlinearly where the gravity is function of climbing angle of the cutting machine along the pipe. The cutting quality is deteriorated with irregular cutting speed. It is necessary to maintain constant cutting speed to obtain good cutting quality ...

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자석식 자동 파이프 절단기를 위한 신뢰성 있는 제어기 개발 (The Reliable Controller Design for Magnetic Auto-Pipe Cutting Machine)

  • 김국환;이명철;이순걸
    • 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정밀공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.1019-1022
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    • 2002
  • Pipe-cutting machines have been used in many fields. Recently, an automatic pipe-cutting machine that uses magnet has born developed. In this paper, a magnetic-type automatic pipe-cutting machine that attaches itself and performs unmanned cutting process is proposed. It is designed that there is a room at the bottom of its body to contain a magnet. And it uses magnetic force between the magnet and the pipe surface to prevent slip and to attach the machine to the pipe against gravity. Also the magnetic force is adjustable by changing the gap between the magnet and the pipe. This machine is, however, necessary to control cutting velocity for the elevation of work efficiency and the adjustable faculties. During pipe cutting process, the gravity acting on the pipe-cutting machine widely varies. That is, the cutting machine gets fast when moving from the top to the bottom of the pipe and slow when moving from the bottom to the top. Actually the system is kind of a non-linear system where the gravity is function of climbing angle of the cutting machine along the pipe. Especially jerking motion is critical. Therefore, authors design the non-linear controller that estimates the current position of the machine along the pipe and compensates the effect of gravity in this paper. It receives the feed back signal from the encoder.

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Two-module robotic pipe inspection system with EMATs

  • Lee, Jin-Hyuk;Han, Sangchul;Ahn, Jaekyu;Kim, Dae-Hyun;Moon, Hyungpil
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • 제13권6호
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    • pp.1041-1063
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    • 2014
  • This work introduces a two-module robotic pipe inspection system with ultrasonic NDE device to evaluate the integrity of pipe structures. The proposed robotic platform has high mobility. The two module mobile robot platform overcomes pipe obstacle structures such as elbow, or T-branch joints by cooperative maneuvers. Also, it can climb up the straight pipeline at a fast speed due to the wheel driven mechanism. For inspection of pipe structure, SH-waves generated by EMAT are applied with additional signal processing methods. A wavelet transform is implemented to extract a meaningful and specific signal from the superposed SH-wave signals. Intensity ratio which is normalized the defect signals intensity by the maximum intensity of directly transmitted signals in the wavelet transforms spectrum is applied to evaluate defects quantitatively. It is experimentally verified that the robotic ultrasonic inspection system with EMAT is capable of non-destructive inspection and evaluation of defects in pipe structure successfully by applying signal processing method based on wavelet transform.

파이프 등반용 로봇의 기구학 연구 (A Study on Kinematics for the Pipe-Climbing Robot)

  • 최유락;이재철;김승호;김재희
    • 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국정보처리학회 2012년도 추계학술발표대회
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    • pp.1653-1655
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    • 2012
  • 5축 관절로 구성된 파이프 등반용 로봇을 마스터 장비를 이용하여 반자동 원격제어하기 위해서는 마스터와 로봇 사이에 이동 좌표를 매칭 시켜주는 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 로봇에 장착된 모터의 움직임을 기구학적으로 풀어냄으로써 마스터 장비의 좌표계를 로봇 모터의 구동과 직접 매칭시키기 위한 과정을 수학적으로 기술한다.

교차가새형 선행 안전난간을 적용한 시스템비계의 구조 성능 평가 (Structural Capacity Evaluation of System Scaffolding using X-Type Advanced Guardrail)

  • 박주동;이현섭;신우승;권용준;박순응;양승수;정기효
    • 한국안전학회지
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    • 제35권5호
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    • pp.49-58
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    • 2020
  • In domestic construction sites, when installing steel pipe scaffolding and system scaffolding, the guardrails are installed after the installation of the work platforms. This conventional guardrail system (CGS) is always exposed to the risk of falls because the safety railing is installed later. In order to prevent fall disasters during erecting and dismantling scaffolds, it is necessary to introduce the advanced guardrail system (AGS) which installs railings in advance of climbing onto a work platform. For the introduction of the AGS, the structural performance of the system scaffolding applying the CGS and the AGS was compared and evaluated. The structural analysis of the system scaffold (height: 31 m and width: 27.4 m) with AGS confirmed that structural safety was ensured because the maximum stress of each element of the system scaffolding satisfies the allowable stress of each element. As a result of performance comparison of CGS and AGS for each element, the combined stress ratio of vertical posts in AGS was 6.4% lower than that of CGS. In addition, in the case of ledger and transom, the combined stress ratios of AGS and CGS were almost the same. The compression test of the assembled system scaffolding (three-storied, 1 bay) showed that the AGS had better performance than the CGS by 9.7% (8.91 kN). The cross bracing exceeds the limit on slenderness ratio of codes for structural steel design. But the safety factor for the compressive load of the cross bracing was evaluated as meeting the design criteria by securing 3 or more. In actual experiments, it was confirmed that brace buckling did not occur even though the overall scaffold was buckled. Therefore, in the case of temporary structures, it was proposed to revise the standards for limiting on slenderness ratio of secondary or auxiliary elements to recommendations. This study can be used as basic data for the introduction of AGS for installing guardrails in advance at domestic construction sites.