A multi-tube inspection system with a reel having a plurality of cameras is placed in the upper header. Each camera is attached to its own lead line and has a light source. An inspector, located in the upper header, aligns each camera with a tube and then operates the reel to simultaneously lower the cameras through their respective tube. As the cameras pass through the tubes, they capture a video image of the interior length of the tube. The video image is stored and relayed to a control center where additional inspectors can review the video image of the interior of the tube. Each video is identified and tied back to the tube in a data base. If a defect is identified, the tube can be taken out of service (blocked off) or scheduled for cleaning. Once cleaned, the tube is then reinspected.

One aspect provides a method, including: storing an infrastructure project summary report with one or more other infrastructure project reports pooled in a database of project summary reports; the infrastructure project report being prepared via accessing fluid conveyance infrastructure summary data describing a condition of a fluid conveyance infrastructure segment; and using a processor of an electronic device to match the infrastructure project summary report with one or more other infrastructure project reports pooled in the database of project summary reports. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Portable pipe inspection video systems are disclosed. The system may include a camera head, a push-cable, a cable reel, and a camera controller having a built-in transmitter for energizing a pipe-inspection cable for magnetic field tracing applications.

A multi-tube inspection system with a reel having a plurality of cameras is placed in the upper header. Each camera is attached to its own lead line and has a light source. An inspector, located in the upper header, aligns each camera with a tube and then operates the reel to simultaneously lower the cameras through their respective tube. As the cameras pass through the tubes, they capture a video image of the interior length of the tube. The video image is stored and relayed to a control center where additional inspectors can review the video image of the interior of the tube. Each video is identified and tied back to the tube in a data base. If a defect is identified, the tube can be taken out of service (blocked off) or scheduled for cleaning. Once cleaned, the tube is then reinspected.

A non-contact optical probe for inspecting the surface of a workpiece includes: a laser source that emits an incident beam of light, an optical system that focuses the optical beam and directs the focused incident beam onto the surface being inspected, a mechanism for scanning the focused beam across the surface being inspected by moving the focal point of the beam relative to the surface, an encoder system that tracks the location of the focused beam on the surface as a function of position, and a wavelength filter that prevents scattered and reflected laser radiation and ambient visible light from reaching an infrared detector inside the probe. The probe design also prevents infrared radiation from locations other than the spot illuminated by the focused laser beam from reaching the detector.

A defect inspection apparatus comprises a light source that irradiates the outer surface of the intermediate transfer belt, a first line camera for receiving the light from the outer surface and transmitting a signal based on the received light, a light source that irradiates the inner surface of the intermediate transfer belt, and a second line camera that receives the light from the inner surface and transmits a signal based on the received light. Based on the signal received from the first line camera, the defect inspection apparatus creates an outer surface image of the outer surface. Based on the signal received from the second line camera, the defect inspection apparatus creates an inner surface image of the inner surface. Based on the outer surface image and the inner surface image, the defect inspection apparatus detects defects contained in the intermediate transfer belt.

A system includes a vessel floating on a body of water. The system also includes at least one conduit extending from the vessel to below the body of water. The system also includes a scanning device disposed within the at least one conduit. The scanning device includes at least one two-dimensional (2D) line scanner and a rotary encoder coupled to the at least one 2D line scanner. The scanning device is configured to generate three-dimensional (3D) image data of a surface of the at least one conduit or at least one component disposed within the at least one conduit.

A sensor device for the inspection of the surface of a cylindrical hollow enclosure having at least one sensor unit set up for an optical confocal distance measurement. The at least one sensor unit has an elongated shape and exhibits an external optical system, through which a measurement device in which light can be emitted and received, is disposed transversely to a longitudinal axis of this sensor unit. The sensor device additionally comprises a movement mechanism, which is adapted to move the at least one sensor unit in one direction of motion into and out of a cylindrical hollow enclosure to be inspected. Control means are provided for measuring raisings of a surface of the cylindrical hollow enclosure and are adapted to control the at least one sensor unit for carrying out a first distance measurement, during which the measuring direction relative to the direction of motion is at an angle from 20 to 85, and to control the at least one sensor unit for carrying out a second distance measurement, during which the measuring direction relative to the direction of motion is at an angle from 95 to 160. To this end, the measuring direction of the at least one sensor unit can be at an angle between 95 and 175 relative to the longitudinal axis of said sensor unit, wherein this sensor unit is mounted on a rotatable bearing such that one and the same sensor unit can be moved to different positions of rotation for the first distance measurement and for the second distance measurement. Alternatively, the at least one sensor unit can comprise at least one first sensor unit and at least one second sensor unit, the first sensor unit being formed and linked with the movement device in such a manner that its measuring direction relative to the direction of motion is at an angle from 20 to 85, and the second sensor unit being formed and linked with the movement device in such a manner that its measuring direction relative to the direction of motion is at an angle from 95 to 160. In addition, a corresponding method is disclosed.

Portable pipe inspection video systems are disclosed. The system may include a camera head, a push-cable, a cable reel, and a camera controller having a built-in transmitter for energizing a pipe-inspection cable for magnetic field tracing applications.

A system includes one or more processors configured to create a projection matrix based on a three-dimensional (3D) model of a part and sensor data associated with a workpiece in a workspace of a robotic manipulator. The projection matrix provides a mapping between sensor coordinates associated with the sensor data and 3D coordinates associated with the 3D model. The one or more processors are configured to identify a set of sensor coordinates from the sensor data corresponding to a feature indication associated with the workpiece, and to determine from the set of sensor coordinates a set of 3D coordinates using the projection matrix.