MULTIPLE CAMERA IMAGER FOR INSPECTION OF LARGE DIAMETER PIPES, CHAMBERS OR TUNNELS

    公开(公告)号:US20190104252A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-04

    申请号:US16145333

    申请日:2018-09-28

    摘要: One embodiment provides a system, including: an inspection platform configured to move through underground infrastructure; an imaging device coupled to the inspection platform; the imaging device comprising a camera housing that arranges an array of four or more cameras in a predetermined configuration; the camera housing comprising a plurality of apertures, wherein each aperture houses a respective camera therein with a viewing axis offset about 30 degrees to about 120 degrees from a viewing axis of an adjacent camera within the array; and circuitry that operates the imaging device to capture a plurality of images using the four or more cameras; where the circuitry captures the plurality of images for a composite image of an interior region of the underground infrastructure, and where the region is larger than a single viewing field of any of the four or more cameras. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

    PIPE FEATURE IDENTIFICATION USING PIPE INSPECTION DATA ANALYSIS

    公开(公告)号:US20190139215A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16184073

    申请日:2018-11-08

    摘要: One aspect provides a method, including: operating a mobile pipe inspection platform to obtain sensor data for the interior of a pipe; analyzing, using a processor, the sensor data using a trained model, where the trained model is trained using a dataset including sensor data of pipe interiors and one or more of: metadata identifying pipe feature locations contained within the sensor data of the dataset and metadata classifying pipe features contained within the sensor data of the dataset; performing one or more of: identifying, using a processor, a pipe feature location within the sensor data; and classifying, using a processor, a pipe feature of the sensor data; and thereafter producing, using a processor, an output including one or more of an indication of the identifying and an indication of the classifying. Other aspects are described and claimed.

    Controlling robot with head mounted controller

    公开(公告)号:US11192262B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-07

    申请号:US16145362

    申请日:2018-09-28

    IPC分类号: B25J13/08 G06F3/01 B25J11/00

    摘要: An embodiment provides a method of controlling a pipe inspection robot, including: detecting, from a headset, brain activity of a user wearing the headset; binning the brain activity of the user into one of a plurality of different bins; the binning comprising accumulating brain activity values for a period of time to establish a brain activity value for the period of time; determining, using the brain activity value, if a threshold level of brain activity has accumulated over the period of time; after the threshold level has been accumulated, identifying a control action to be sent to the pipe inspection robot based on the brain activity value; and controlling the movement of the pipe inspection robot using a control signal associated with the control action. Other embodiments are described and claimed.