An image inspecting apparatus includes at least one image capturing part, a lighting part, a control part including a moving part, a searching part analyzing an image captured by the image capturing part under a first image capturing condition and searching for a defect candidate from an object under inspection, and a determining part. When the searching part finds the defect candidate from the object under inspection, the control part controls an image capturing condition such that a part where the defect candidate is found by the searching part is photographed under a second image capturing condition that is clearer than the first image capturing condition. The determining part analyzes an image captured by the image capturing part under the second image capturing condition and determines whether the defect of the object under inspection is present or absent.

The present invention discloses an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) for aquatic ecosystem monitoring and restoration and a control method for aquatic ecosystem restoration. A control cabin, a water-quality monitoring cabin, and a water treatment equipment compartment are arranged inside a cabin of a hull of the USV for aquatic ecosystem monitoring and restoration, and a water-surface photographing device and a remote communications device are arranged outside the cabin; the control cabin is connected to the water-quality monitoring cabin, the water-surface photographing device, and the water treatment equipment compartment; the water quality parameters include five conventional water quality parameters and eutrophication-based water quality parameters; and the remote communications device is connected to the water-quality monitoring cabin and the water treatment equipment compartment. The present invention can implement real-time, automatic, and dynamic aquatic ecosystem monitoring, early warning of the water pollution, and self-adaptive ecological restoration based on an artificial intelligent control algorithm.

An inspection system and method with a variable-diameter traveling robot for inspection of a natural gas pipeline. The inspection system includes a pipeline inspection robot, a cable reel, a hydraulic pump and an information acquisition control terminal. The pipeline inspection robot includes an electronic cabin and a traveling mechanism. The electronic cabin includes a first digital camera, a second digital camera, a first digital camera mounting plate, a second digital camera mounting plate, a drum, a printed circuit board, a magnetic flux leakage probe, and a backup battery. The traveling mechanism includes a first traveling part, a second traveling part, an inner ratchet, an inner ratchet base, a slider, a long shaft, a hydraulic cylinder, and a hydraulic pipe. The cable reel includes a power line, a conversion module, and a communication line. The information acquisition control terminal is a mobile terminal having an analysis module and a control module.

A flexible inspection system includes a robot with a plurality of scanners and a robot controller. The robot controller is configured to receive a vehicle inspection protocol (VIP) for a vehicle being assembled on an assembly line. The VIP includes checkpoints to be scanned on the vehicle and the checkpoints correspond to components installed on the vehicle and connections between components installed on the vehicle. The robot controller commands the robot to move the plurality of scanners per the VIP such that the checkpoints are scanned. A characteristic of each checkpoint is recorded and compared to a reference characteristic such that a pass or no-pass determination of each checkpoint is provided. A vehicle inspection report with the pass/no-pass determinations is provided to an operator such that operator inspections and/or repairs of the checkpoints are made.

Systems and methods of the present disclosure include at least one building component detection sensor device configured to be deployed within (or proximate to) a building comprised of a plurality of building components. The at least one building component detection sensor device is configured to detect data relating to at least one building component of the plurality of building components. In addition, a building component property determination system includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored in memory to determine one or more properties of the at least one building component based at least in part on the data detected by the at least one building component detection sensor device.

A mobile platform uses a charge accumulation control system to control a charge accumulation while the mobile platform is in the tank. Alternatively or additionally, the mobile platform includes a retrieval system having a buoyant body, a primary tether, and a secondary tether. Alternatively or additionally, an electrical cable is used to reduce a voltage difference between the mobile platform and the tank or other structure by electrically connecting to an electrically conductive member on the mobile platform.

Provided is an inspection management device and the like capable of reducing, by an inspection robot, the number of pieces of measurement data indicating measurement failure. The inspection management device includes: a data analysis unit that determines success or failure in measurement at a measurement position of a structure based on measurement data output from an inspection robot that inspects the structure in accordance with an inspection plan, the measurement data being output each time when the inspection robot performs measurement, and estimates a cause of measurement failure in accordance with a determination result; and an inspection planning unit that corrects the inspection plan based on the estimated cause and outputs the corrected inspection plan.

An electronic device for optically checking an appearance of a product for defects includes a first checking device checking a plane of a product and a second checking device checking side surfaces of the product. The first checking device includes a first camera device, a second camera device, and first white and red light sources. The second checking device includes a third camera device, at least one second white light source, and at least one second red light source. When the first white light source or the first red light source are activated, the first and second camera device capture at least one image of a plane. When the second white light source or the second red light source are activated, the third camera device captures at least one image of a side surface.

This invention comprises a system and a method for inspecting the inside of delayed petroleum coking vessels to identify deformations, detect and determine the severity of other defects, and visually observe the inside of the inspected vessel.

Automatic enrollment of an item of manufacture to a quality inspection system comprises using associations of enrollment images of an example of the item of manufacture to their corresponding camera poses. Enrollment images which show inspection targets (e.g., components of the item of manufacture) in views which are also suitable for use in visual inspection of further instances of the item of manufacture are identified. Their associated camera poses are selected and provided for use in inspection planning. In some embodiments, suitability of the camera pose is verified by performing inspection tests on the enrollment images.