PIPELINE INSPECTION ROBOT WITH WIRELESS CAMERA AND CLEANING

`HITHESH U WARRIER SREEJITH M JAYARAJ JUDIT ANTONY JITHIN P JOSEPH SIMON

INTRODUCTION
Many oil industries are using the ladder or crane for checking over the pipe lines. It may be very risky and manual fault may occur Here we are going for the automatic checking system with help of robot. The project is made up of simple arrangements. We can easily fix the robot in the pipe line. The camera captures the photo of the pipe accordingly and detects the hole The pipe is cleaned with help of cleaning brush. This equipment has less maintenance. The project consists of the following parts, Motor, Wheels, spring arrangement, cleaning arrangement and Control unit.

WORKING
Here we are using robot with six wheels, three wheels are in the rear end with attachment of motor and other three wheels are in front of the robot. The movement of the robot is done with the help of motors coupled with the rear wheels. The forward and reverse directions of the motor are controlled by the control unit. Using this equipment we can easily inspect the pipe line with attachment of camera.

 The camera is mounted at the front of the robot so that the damages in the pipe lines can be detected easily. The camera is connected to the PC by which the detections and holes can be identified for rectification. A motor is arranged at the rear end with cleaning brush to clean the pipe. This project is very helpful for oil industries. The spring arrangement in the robot is used to expand and shrink the wheel set up according to the diameter of the pipe lines.

Major parts
1. MOTOR HERE we use 4 DC MOTOR 3 are used for driving wheels One for cleaning brush 2. SPRING Spring is used to adjust the aparatus dia to required pipe dia

3. CONTROL UNIT It is responsible for controling overall acticites done by this system It consisit of micro controllers to which datas are coded accordingly It also consits of drivers circuits,relay coils for each motor.

4. CAMERA Camera is used to capture images indsie pipe to detect faults it is fixed on to front side of the robot 5.WHEELS Wheels are used to drive the robot Here we use 6 wheels,3 on front side & 3 on rear side

6.CLEANING BRUSH cleaning brush is attached to its rear end which is driven by a Dc motor Cleaning brush enables cleaning of pipe line when needed 7.SLIDERS & LINKS Sliders and links give dynamicity to device All parts are attached to sliders

ACCESSORIES REQUIRED
A LAPTOP ,with pipe line inspection software installed An RF 32 USB adapter to connect the device 2 lap

ADVANTAGES
Implementation is easy Maintenance is easy

Easy to operate
Less cost Less manual work

BLOCK DIAGRAM

DISADVANATGES
It can be used only for the particular sizes of pipes only.

 APPLICATIONS Applicable in oil industries and pipe lines etc..,

PROGRESS
SYSTEM IS almost 90%complete Work remainig

CONCLUSION
The project carried out by us will make an impressing mark in the field of robotics. Hence we proved that our model reduces the human effort and cost for remedies for such problems in industries.