[TriEmbed] Experience with inspection robot projects?

[John Wettroth]

I worked on a system long ago for the Gas Research Institute (GRI).  It was called a Pipe mouse and they deployed them in many forms and still do.  They looked  like a snake (kind of) and were used for 6” or greater gas pipe inspection- corrosion, etc.  The existing model was just a video camera based system.  They came to my old company (SAIC- Instrument Development Lab) to make an X-Ray backscatter version (our specialty) to look at pipe and joint integrity.  We finished the contract but I think the video ones are still the vast majority.
 
I like your idea- looks pretty cool and fun.  I wonder if with the price of cameras these days, you couldn’t just point a fixed camera at each of the trouble spots maybe 4 or 5.  I have a bunch (20 or so) of standard definition camera from an old project.  We could make a deal…
 
 
Here is a link to some work on “Pipe Mice”.
Regards,
John M. Wettroth
E: jwet at mindspring.com
M: (919) 349-9875 
H:  (984) 329-5420
 
From: TriEmbed <triembed-bounces at triembed.org> On Behalf Of Ron Craig via TriEmbed
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2022 2:24 PM
To: Triangle Embedded Interest Group <triembed at triembed.org>
Subject: [TriEmbed] Experience with inspection robot projects?
 
I just finished off my Ham Clock and display project: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5429286
I think next I'd like to put a web-controllable camera on a track in my crawlspace to keep an eye on things without having to crawl down there.
 
Thought is an inverted T-shaped track with a hobby motor driving a couple of wheels and carrying a camera and LED lights around the crawlspace. 
Pan / tilt. Maybe an arm to lower the camera as needed.  A charging station along the track where the car can pull in and top off the battery bank(s).
 
The picture below gives some idea what I'm thinking.   Anybody done anything similar??
 

Thoughts, experiences, hints and tips are welcome!
 
Best,
Ron
		
	
 

	
-- 
J'ai bonne espérance!
         <https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4x7f0IaPYeVI5XBRH_XOTAY9QJ37cnEngLme61N1hiZatYMNWaN6q8Jxg-TkhQaFLtncx3wKSg> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20220727/fb62a5d8/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 253231 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/20220727/fb62a5d8/attachment.png>