TY - GEN
T1 - Current and future research focus on inspection of vertical structures in oil and gas industry
AU - Sudevan, Vidya
AU - Shukla, Amit
AU - Karki, Hamad
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported by GRC, ADNOC, Abu Dhabi through the project EE/PI/2015449.
Publisher Copyright:
© ICROS.
PY - 2018/12/10
Y1 - 2018/12/10
N2 - Regular inspection of oil and gas installations are vital for production, maintenance, safety and environmental impact assessment. Due to complex set-up and hazardous operation environment, the inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) operations as considered as an inevitable task in oil and gas industries. Integrating technologies from the field of robotics, sensing and process control will be a decisive step in digitalization of oil and gas industry. The traditional vertical structures inspection system uses rope access, scaffolds, telescopic elevation platforms supported by cranes and manned helicopters. The challenges faced by conventional techniques are the construction of scaffolding, sending inspectors into dangerous and fatal environments, shutdown of plant operations etc. that has financial burden on the plant operating cost. Introduction of robotic technologies such as wall-climbing robots, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and wall-climbing drones, provides a possible solution for these challenges by increasing the efficiency, reducing the risks and lowering the cost of IMR tasks. The current research focus in this field is to automate and improve the inspection and testing capabilities of these systems. This paper presents the state of art of current scenario and future research focus on vertical structure inspection in oil and gas industry.
AB - Regular inspection of oil and gas installations are vital for production, maintenance, safety and environmental impact assessment. Due to complex set-up and hazardous operation environment, the inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) operations as considered as an inevitable task in oil and gas industries. Integrating technologies from the field of robotics, sensing and process control will be a decisive step in digitalization of oil and gas industry. The traditional vertical structures inspection system uses rope access, scaffolds, telescopic elevation platforms supported by cranes and manned helicopters. The challenges faced by conventional techniques are the construction of scaffolding, sending inspectors into dangerous and fatal environments, shutdown of plant operations etc. that has financial burden on the plant operating cost. Introduction of robotic technologies such as wall-climbing robots, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and wall-climbing drones, provides a possible solution for these challenges by increasing the efficiency, reducing the risks and lowering the cost of IMR tasks. The current research focus in this field is to automate and improve the inspection and testing capabilities of these systems. This paper presents the state of art of current scenario and future research focus on vertical structure inspection in oil and gas industry.
KW - Inspection methods
KW - Oil and Gas industry
KW - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
KW - Vertical structures
KW - Wall climbing drone
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060455796
T3 - International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
SP - 144
EP - 149
BT - International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 18th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, ICCAS 2018
Y2 - 17 October 2018 through 20 October 2018
ER -