US 12,392,708 B2
Method and internet of things (IoT) system for corrosion supervision of gas pipeline
Zehua Shao, Chengdu (CN); Yuefei Wu, Chengdu (CN); Junyan Zhou, Chengdu (CN); Yaqiang Quan, Chengdu (CN); and Xiaojun Wei, Chengdu (CN)
Assigned to CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Chengdu (CN)
Filed by CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Sichuan (CN)
Filed on Apr. 10, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/632,259.
Application 18/632,259 is a continuation of application No. 18/317,909, filed on May 15, 2023, granted, now 11,982,613.
Claims priority of application No. 202310216731.9 (CN), filed on Mar. 8, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0255414 A1, Aug. 1, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01N 17/02 (2006.01); F16L 58/10 (2006.01); F17D 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 17/02 (2013.01) [F16L 58/1027 (2013.01); F17D 5/005 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
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1. A method for corrosion supervision of a gas pipeline, implemented through a smart gas safety management platform of an Internet of Things (IoT) system for corrosion supervision of a gas pipeline, comprising:
obtaining inspection data of a gas pipeline in a gas pipeline network;
constructing a first pipeline diagram of the gas pipeline network based on the inspection data;
determining a corrosion probability of the gas pipeline based on the first pipeline diagram using a corrosion probability model, the corrosion probability model being a machine learning model; wherein
the first pipeline diagram includes nodes and edges, the nodes in the first pipeline diagram include a first type of nodes corresponding to monitoring device installation points and a second type of nodes corresponding to pipeline demarcation points, features of the first type of nodes include the inspection data, features of the second type of nodes is null; and features of the edges in the first pipeline diagram include a gas flow direction, pipeline features, and an environmental unit feature sequence;
determining one or more estimated pipeline corrosion regions based on the corrosion probability of the gas pipeline;
obtaining in-depth inspection data of the gas pipeline by performing in-depth inspection on at least one of the estimated pipeline corrosion regions;
determining corrosion features of the one or more estimated pipeline corrosion regions based on gas monitoring data and the in-depth inspection data of the gas pipeline;
in response to the corrosion features satisfying a first preset condition,
generating a plurality of candidate repair paths based on a second preset condition, and determining a target repair path by performing a plurality of iterations on the plurality of candidate repair paths based on evaluation values; wherein
each of the plurality of iterations includes filtering the plurality of candidate repair paths based on the evaluation values, wherein the evaluation values include a first evaluation value and a second evaluation value; the first evaluation value is negatively related to an invalid path length of a path that a repair robot passes through; and the second evaluation value is positively related to a sum of corrosion degrees of corrosion regions that the repair robot passes through;
determining a repair plan at least based on the target repair path; and
controlling the repair robot to enter the gas pipeline and repair the gas pipeline according to the repair plan, wherein the repair plan includes a repair path of the repair robot.