SmartCrawler: An in-pipe robotic system with wireless communication in water distribution systems

S Kazeminasab, R Jafari, MK Banks - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.06344, 2021 - arxiv.org
Water Distribution Systems (WDS) are critical infrastructures that deliver potable water to
residential areas. Incidents to pipelines cause water loss and contamination in pipelines …

SmartCrawler: An In-pipe Robotic System with Novel Low-frequency Wireless Communication Setup in Water Distribution Systems

S Kazeminasab, MK Banks - Authorea Preprints, 2023 - techrxiv.org
Water Distribution Systems (WDS) are critical infrastructures that deliver potable water to
residential areas. Water quality monitoring is one of the requirements for utility managers to …

Towards long-distance inspection for in-pipe robots in water distribution systems with smart motion facilitated by particle filter and multi-phase motion controller

S Kazeminasab, MK Banks - Intelligent Service Robotics, 2022 - Springer
Incidents in water distribution systems cause water loss and water contamination that
requires the utility managers to assess the condition of pipelines frequently. However …

Design, characterization, and control of a size adaptable in-pipe robot for water distribution systems

S Kazeminasab, A Akbari, R Jafari… - 2021 22nd IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leak detection and water quality monitoring are requirements and challenging tasks in
Water Distribution Systems (WDS). In-line robots are designed for this aim. In our previous …

Smart navigation for an in-pipe robot through multi-phase motion control and particle filtering method

S Kazeminasab, V Janfaza, M Razavi… - … Conference on Electro …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In-pipe robots are promising solutions for condition assessment, leak detection, water quality
monitoring in a variety of other tasks in pipeline networks. Smart navigation is an extremely …

Smartcrawler: a size-adaptable in-pipe wireless robotic system with two-phase motion control algorithm in water distribution systems

S Kazeminasab, MK Banks - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Incidents to pipes cause damage in water distribution systems (WDS) and access to all parts
of the WDS is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an integrated wireless robotic …

An LQR-assisted control algorithm for an under-actuated in-pipe robot in water distribution systems

S Kazeminasab, R Jafari, MK Banks - Proceedings of the 36th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
To address the operational challenges of in-pipe robots in large pipes of water distribution
systems (WDS), in this research, a control algorithm is proposed for our previously designed …

Localization techniques for in-pipe robots in water distribution systems

S Kazeminasab, M Aghashahi, R Wu… - 2020 8th international …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In water distribution systems, in-line robots are designed to continuously access pipelines
for water quality monitoring, leak detection, and visual inspection. However, these robots …

Development of an inline robot for water quality monitoring

S Kazeminasab, M Aghashahi… - 2020 5th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Water distribution systems are critical infrastructure that are expected to supply healthy
water. Deliberate or accidental incidents such as terrorist attacks or pipe breaks can …

A localization and navigation method for an in-pipe robot in water distribution system through wireless control towards long-distance inspection

S Kazeminasab, MK Banks - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose an operation procedure for our previously developed in-pipe
robotic system that is used for water quality monitoring in water distribution systems (WDS) …