The precise trajectories of long gas and oil pipelines surveying is a key part of pipeline integrity management (PIM) system. This paper presents a pipeline auto-mapping system based on inertial technology. The system includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) as the core component, odometers and a set of cartographic landmarks as the auxiliary signals. A post-processing off-line computer system receives downloaded inertial measurement, odometer, and landmarks data and though the use of Kalman filters to estimate the system state. On simulation experiments, the accuracy of integrated navigation system is approximately 0.1m per Km.

Date Published: 17 October 2012
PDF: 4 pages
Proc. SPIE 8421, OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, 8421AI (17 October 2012); doi: 10.1117/12.968553

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8421:
OFS2012 22nd International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors
Yanbiao Liao; Wei Jin; David D. Sampson; Ryozo Yamauchi; Youngjoo Chung; Kentaro Nakamura; Yunjiang Rao, Editor(s)