Acoustic communication technology for robots in buried pipes

埋地管道机器人声学通信技术

• 批准号: 2882932
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2882932
• 关键词: Acoustic; communication; technology; robots; buried

The UK's clean water pipe network is losing water at an alarming rate of 1161 million m3/year, or over 20% of the treated water put into supply. In response to this major water utilities companies are investing into the state of the art research centres (for example, Northumbrian Water are developing the National Leakage Research and Test Centre, https://waterinnovation.challenges.org/winners/nlrtc/) while the University of Sheffield have already set up the Integrated Civil and Infrastructure Research Centre . The new bespoke facilities available in ICAIR (ICAIR, https://icair.ac.uk/). will be open to the student to develop a world lead in acoustic communication science, technology and standard communication protocols which can be adopted by swarms of autonomous robots inspecting and repairing a massive network of buried pipes managed by water utilities. These robots, developed as part of EP/S016813/1 Programme Grant (www.pipebots.ac.uk), will operate in over 1M km of pressurised water supply and partially filled wastewater pipe network. It is expected that the student will make use of machine learning, statistical modelling and other components of AI technologies to develop a robust acoustic communication algorithms. It has been shown through previous research that reliable communication within robot swarms in buried pipelines is essential for the robotic inspection approach to work efficiently but the much needed communication technology does not exist and is urgently needed. It is expected that this science needed to develop the technology and technology itself will be transferable to other pipe networks in petrochemical and nuclear industries, telecommunication and HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems.

英国的清洁水管道网络正在以惊人的速度流失水11.61亿立方米/年，或超过20%的处理水投入供应。为了应对这一问题，主要的水务公司正在投资最先进的研究中心（例如，诺森布里亚水务公司正在开发国家泄漏研究和测试中心，https：//waterinnovation.challenges.org/winners/nlrtc/），而谢菲尔德大学已经建立了综合土木和基础设施研究中心。谢菲尔德。ICAIR提供新的定制设施（ICAIR，https：//icair.ac.uk/）。将向学生开放，以开发世界领先的声学通信科学，技术和标准通信协议，这些协议可以被成群的自主机器人采用，以检查和修复由水务公司管理的大型地下管道网络。这些机器人作为EP/S 016813/1计划资助的一部分开发，将在超过100万公里的加压供水和部分填充的污水管道网络中运行。www.pipebots.ac.uk预计学生将利用机器学习，统计建模和人工智能技术的其他组件来开发强大的声学通信算法。通过先前的研究已经表明，在埋地管道中的机器人群内的可靠通信对于机器人检测方法有效地工作是必不可少的，但是非常需要的通信技术不存在并且迫切需要。预计开发该技术所需的科学和技术本身将可转移到石化和核工业，电信和HVAC（加热，通风和空调）系统的其他管网中。