Projects
Non-Contact Condition Monitoring System for Oil & Gas Pipelines
Phase-II: A condition monitoring system with a multi-agent mechanism for external non-contact smart inspection of buried oil and gas pipelines
Project Budget: USD 1,307,540
Period: Jan’18 – till date
Project Budget: USD 1,307,540
Period: Jan’18 – Dec 2019
Responsibilities:
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Developing robust and accurate tracking by fusion of data from GPS, Visual Camera, and Sensors
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Formulating algorithms for automated processing and interpretation of regularly gathered enormous data by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for speedy and accurate fault detection and future anomaly predictions
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Working on the identification of 3D berms of buried pipelines by the camera installed on low altitude flying UAV
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Managing autonomous landing and take-off of UAV from the top of the AGV for charging of UAV
Multi-Agent Inspection System
Phase-I: A condition monitoring system with a multi-agent mechanism for external non-contact smart inspection of buried oil and gas pipelines
Project Budget: USD 595,000
Period: Jan’15 – Dec’17
Description: Inspection sensor (MMM) not only detects existing faults, will also be able to predict the future possible fault (such as corrosion) location in the core of buried metal pipeline, standalone MMM sensors is validated.
Responsibilities:
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Built a smart multi-agent non-contact external inspection system, which will be used for condition monitoring and defect inspection in the buried metallic pipelines for Oil and Gas industries
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Developed automated tracking controllers for UAV and AGV based on individual navigation sensors such as Visual Camera, GPS and Pipe Locator
Phase I & Phase II of “Condition Monitoring” project is sponsored by Gas Processing and material Science Research Centre (GRC), Abu Dhabi, UAE; Sponsors and affiliates for GRC include the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and four major international oil companies that include BP, Japan Oil Development Company, Shell and Total
Teleoperation
Developing teleoperation technology based on the principles of tele-inspection and telemanipulation with haptic feedback for the Oil and Gas industry
Project Budget: AED 175,000
Period: Mar’13 – Dec’15
Description: The research has proposed a novel teleoperated mechanism to be used in oil and gas industry by integrating two non-isomorphic mechanisms in the master-slave configuration, where a 6-DOF parallel manipulator is the master robot and a 6-DOF serial manipulator is the slave robot.
