Advance Geometry Tool
Pipeline Geometry Inspection
The Orientation Measurement Unit (OMU) contains all inertial sensors as well as a range of secondary sensors. The OMU is carefully calibrated to determine the alignment of each mechanically assembled sensor to within 0.01°.
The OMU is fully autonomous, i.e. it is battery powered and the data logged is stored internally during a measurement run. This eliminates the need to drag a data and/or power cable behind the system. Also, autonomy means that it does not need to be traced above ground as it moves through a pipe and thus can travel to any depth and underneath any obstacle (such as rivers, railways, highways, buildings etc.).
An application specific housing and centralizing system that typically contains the odometers to record the speed of travel.
Proprietary X-Traction® and X-View® data processing software.
These software programs convert the autonomously logged data by the OMU and odometers to an accurate 3-dimensional line in the same coordinate system as the given coordinates at the entry and exit points.
The unique approach taken by Reduct means that it is not necessary to know the exact position of the OMU as it travels from entry point (A) to exit point (B). Rather, the software establishes where it has been after it is retrieved from the pipe.
Essentially, for each sample, the X-Traction® software calculates the angular change compared to the previous sample. The sample length is then derived from the odometer log. When the calculated vectors are placed in sequence, the path travelled is reconstructed, which is then linked to the known coordinates of A and B to obtain the final result in the chosen coordinate system. The resulting output can then be further processed to various forms of information.
The calibrated accuracy of an OMU is 15cm in XYZ over a 500m distance between way-points assuming the following mapping conditions:
The above accuracy is equivalent to 0.03% or 1/3333. Note that pipe condition and operational handling can have a negative impact on the achievable accuracy of a measurement.
Currently the most common applications are pipelines installed by trenchless technologies, anchors and freeze holes, upgrade of analog (or digitized) network data to digital data and high definition inclination assessment.