{"id":187,"date":"2009-12-01T21:12:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/?p=187"},"modified":"2022-11-29T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:17:14","slug":"a-leak-inspection-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/2009\/12\/01\/a-leak-inspection-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"A robot to inspect gas and water pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leak inspection Robot used to inspect. Too often, small <strong>accidents<\/strong> at home or at work turn into real disasters, with a catastrophic outcome, because of <strong>water<\/strong> or <strong>gas<\/strong> pipes that are too old, damaged or worn out, which may have <strong>leaks<\/strong> invisible even to the most accurate of inspections. This kind of leak, in case of an accident, may turn out lethal.<\/p>\n<h2>How Leak Inspection robots help to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alcimed.com\/en\/alcim-articles\/pipe-inspection-robots-hard-to-reach-pipes\/#:~:text=Equipped%20with%20a%20high%2Dresolution,small%20obstacles%20it%20might%20encounter.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inspect<\/a> pipes?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to inspect metal pipes, the <strong>Tokyo<\/strong> University of Electro Communications has created a <strong>robot<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/borescopes-inspection-cameras.php\"><strong>pipe inspection<\/strong><\/a>, which can easily move inside <strong>metallic<\/strong> tubes with a diameter of at least 10 centimeters, by simply using a <strong>magnet<\/strong> to remain stuck to the pipe\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aside from the magnet, it is also equipped with a <strong>digital<\/strong> camera, a battery and a <strong>LED<\/strong> light. Thanks to this equipment, the leak inspection robot is capable of <strong>moving<\/strong> on four small wheels within the pipe, of <strong>illuminating<\/strong> it with its light and using a connection cable to transmit the <strong>images<\/strong> towards a personal computer, from where the entire inspection operation is monitored.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The initial leak inspection robot <strong>prototype<\/strong> created by Japanese researchers can be controlled <strong>remotely<\/strong>, and the vibrations created by the magnet, which moves like a pendulum, keep the robot stuck to the inside of the pipe, and allow it to <strong>move<\/strong> freely, even vertically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its <strong>small<\/strong> size (11 cm in length, with a width and height of 8 cm) makes it suitable for most gas and water pipes, thus eliminating the need of <strong>digging<\/strong> or breaking into a wall, as the robot can be inserted into the pipe at any point, connected to the computer and you are <strong>ready<\/strong> to go, without additional costs or uncomfortable working conditions during the inspection of your pipes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leak inspection Robot used to inspect. Too often, small accidents at home or at work turn into real disasters, with a catastrophic outcome, because of water or gas pipes that are too old, damaged or worn out, which may have leaks invisible even to the most accurate of inspections. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","two-columns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoacustica.com\/blogen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}