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- Title
Application of Weld Scar Recognition in Small-Diameter Transportation Pipeline Positioning System.
- Authors
Lv, Zhen; Wang, Guochen; Wang, Zicheng; Zhao, Huachuan; Gao, Wei
- Abstract
In order to improve the positioning accuracy of the pipeline inspection gauge (PIG), a pipeline positioning method, based on weld location, is proposed. The position of the welding scar is recognized by wavelet transform modulus maxima (WTMM). Equidistant welding scars provide positioning references to the strap-down inertial navigation system (SINS)/dead reckoning (DR) navigation system, which is the positioning algorithm in PIG. The following improvements have been made in relation to prior research. First, we suggest a selection strategy for the optimal mother wavelet and decomposition level; based on the strategy, WTMM can recognize the collision response between the PIG and submerged weld in the burst noise for the inertial measurement unit (IMU) output. Then, characteristic position (CP), which is the site of the weld scar, and non-holonomic constraints are utilized to decrease the position and the attitude error. By doing such, the SINS/DR/CP algorithm is proposed. The positioning error of the modified algorithm is 0.129% in the experiment, which performs better than other algorithms.
- Subjects
PIPELINE transportation; WELDED joints; PIPELINE inspection; WELDING; NONHOLONOMIC constraints; INERTIAL navigation systems
- Publication
Electronics (2079-9292), 2022, Vol 11, Issue 7, p1100
- ISSN
2079-9292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/electronics11071100