Design and Implement a Gas Pipeline Inspection System using Robotic Vehicle

Gas leak is an important safety issue in oil and gas production. During the past fifteen years, a considerable number of studies have been made into how to detect and localize gas leaks. Equipped with sensors measuring the point concentration of specific substances, a variety of mobile robots and technologies have been looking for gas sources. This paper presents a real-time system to detect abnormal events on gas pipes, by developing a data monitoring system to detect the gas levels and concentration using GAS leak detector system that is positioned on robotic vehicle (pioneer p3-dx) combined with modern communication technologies in terms of GPS to locate the robot in real-time accuracy of tracking process. Keyword s: Gas Detection, Robotic (outdoor seeker), EASYPEE (zigbee) board, GPS

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