Friday 26 August 2016

Robot surveys sewers with UWB radar

Ultra-wide-band pulsed radar is the key to scanning sewer pipes quickly, claim researchers from Louisiana Tech University. Fractures, deterioration and voids in surrounding soil can be detected in buried pipes, tunnels and culverts without intimate contact between the sensor and the pipe. Instead, the radar robot drives along the interior scanning the walls. “Our UWB ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/research-news/robot-surveys-sewers-uwb-radar-2016-08/

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