Advanced Condition Assessment & Failure Prediction Technologies for Optimal Management of Critical Pipes

Project Member(s): Dissanayake, G., Valls Miro, J., Kodagoda, S., Alempijevic, A., Wang, J., Vidal Calleja, T.

Funding or Partner Organisation: University of Newcastle (The University of Newcastle)
Monash University
City West Water (City West Water Industry Funding)
Water Corporation (Water Corporation Partner Funds)
Sydney Water Corporation (Sydney Water Corporation Partnership Fund)
Hunter Water Corporation (Hunter Water)
Melbourne Water Corporation
South East Water Limited
UK Water Industry Research Limited
South Australian Water Corporation
Water Research Foundation

Start year: 2011

Publications:

Shi, L & Miro, JV 2018, 'Towards optimised and reconstructable sampling inspection of pipe integrity for improved efficiency of non-destructive testing', Water Supply, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 515-523.
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Shi, L & Miro, JV 1970, 'Towards optimised and reconstructable sampling inspection of pipe integrity for improved efficiency of non-destructive testing', WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-WATER SUPPLY, 2016 IWA World Water Congress, IWA PUBLISHING, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, pp. 515-523.
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Ulapane, N, Nguyen, L, Miro, JV & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'A solution to the inverse pulsed eddy current problem enabling 3D profiling', 2018 13th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2018 13th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), IEEE, Wuhan, China, pp. 1267-1272.
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Valls, MJ, Hunt, D, Ulapane, N & Behrens, M 1970, 'Field and Service Robotics', Field and Service Robotics: Results of the 11th International Conference, Conference on Field and Service Robotics, Springer International Publishing, Zurich, pp. 319-334.
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Falque, R, Vidal-Calleja, T & Miro, J 2017, 'Defect Detection and Segmentation Framework for Remote Field Eddy Current Sensor Data', Sensors, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2276-2276.
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Ulapane, N, Alempijevic, A, Vidal Calleja, T & Valls Miro, J 2017, 'Pulsed Eddy Current Sensing for Critical Pipe Condition Assessment', Sensors, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2208-2208.
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Munoz, F, Miro, JV, Dissanayake, G, Ulapane, N & Nguyen, L 1970, 'Design of a lock-in amplifier integrated with a coil system for eddy-current non-destructive inspection', 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), IEEE, Siem Reap, Cambodia, pp. 1948-1953.
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Nguyen, L, Ulapane, N, Miro, JV, Dissanayake, G & Munoz, F 1970, 'Improved signal interpretation for cast iron thickness assessment based on pulsed eddy current sensing', 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), IEEE, Siem Reap, Cambodia, pp. 2005-2010.
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Shi, L, Valls Miro, J, Vidal Calleja, T, Vitanage, D & Rajalingam, J 1970, 'Innovative Data-driven “along-the-pipe” Condition Assessment for Critical Water Mains', OZWATER’17 Australia’s International Water Conference & Exhibition, OzWater’17 Australia’s International Water Conference & Exhibition, Australian Water Association, Sydney, pp. 1-8.

Sun, L, Vidal-Calleja, T & Miro, JV 1970, 'Coupling conditionally independent submaps for large-scale 2.5D mapping with Gaussian Markov Random Fields', 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, Singapore, Singapore, pp. 3131-3137.
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Ulapane, N, Nguyen, L, Miro, JV, Alempijevic, A & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Designing a pulsed eddy current sensing set-up for cast iron thickness assessment', 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2017 12th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), IEEE, Siem Reap, Cambodia, pp. 901-906.
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Kodikara, J, Valls Miro, J & Melchers, R 2016, 'Failure Prediction of Critical Cast Iron Pipes', Advances in Water Research, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 6-11.

Valls Miro, J & Shi, L 2016, 'Aiming for the Holy Grail: Pipe Condition Assessment Along Critical Mains from Limited Inspections', Utility Magazine, vol. 10, pp. 90-92.

Falque, R, Vidal-Calleja, T, Dissanayake, G & Miro, JV 1970, 'From the Skin-Depth Equation to the Inverse RFEC Sensor Model', 2016 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2016, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, IEEE, Phuket, Thailand.
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Shi, L, Miro, JV, Zhang, T, Vidal-Calleja, T, Sun, L & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Constrained sampling of 2.5D probabilistic maps for augmented inference', 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 3131-3136.
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Shi, L, Valls Miro, J, Rajalingam, J, Wood, R & Vitanage, D 1970, 'High Precision GPS Aided In-pipe Distance Calibration For Satellite Image-based Pipeline Mapping', OZWATER’16 Australia’s International Water Conference & Exhibition, OZWATER’16 Australia’s International Water Conference & Exhibition, Australian Water Association, Melbourne, pp. 1-8.

Sun, L, Vidal-Calleja, T & Miro, JV 1970, 'Gaussian Markov Random Fields for fusion in information form', 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 1840-1845.
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Wijerathna, B, Falque, R, Kodagoda, S & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Linear approximation for mapping remaining wall thickness using a magnetic flux leakage sensor', Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, The University of Queensland, pp. 240-247.

Ulapane 2016, 'Nondestructive evaluation of ferromagnetic critical water pipes using pulsed eddy current testing'.

Falque, R, Vidal-Calleja, T, Miro, JV & IEEE 1970, 'Kidnapped Laser-Scanner for Evaluation of RFEC Tool', 2015 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 313-318.
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Shi, L, Sun, L, Vidal-Calleja, T & Miro, JV 1970, 'Kernel-specific Gaussian process for predicting pipe wall thickness maps', Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, AARA, Canberra, pp. 1-8.

Su, D, Miro, JV, Vidal-Calleja, T & IEEE 1970, 'Modelling In-Pipe Acoustic Signal Propagation for Condition Assessment of Multi-Layer Water Pipelines', PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 10TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS, IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, IEEE, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 545-550.
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Su, D, Miro, JV, Vidal-Calleja, T & IEEE 1970, 'Real-time Sound Source Localisation for Target Tracking Applications using an Asynchronous Microphone Array', PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 10TH IEEE CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS, IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, IEEE, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 1266-1271.
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SU, D, VALLS MIRO, J & VIDAL-CALLEJA, T 1970, 'GRAPH-SLAM BASED CALIBRATION OF AN EMBEDDED ASYNCHRONOUS MICROPHONE ARRAY FOR OUTDOOR ROBOTIC TARGET TRACKING', Assistive Robotics, CLAWAR 2015: 18th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, pp. 641-648.
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Su, D, Vidal-Calleja, T, Mins, JV & IEEE 1970, 'Simultaneous asynchronous microphone array calibration and sound source localisation', 2015 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 5561-5567.
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Sun, L, Vidal-Calleja, T & Miro, JV 1970, 'Bayesian fusion using conditionally independent submaps for high resolution 2.5D mapping', 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, Seattle, Washington, United States, pp. 3394-3400.
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Wijerathna, B, Kodagoda, S, Miro, JV & Dissanayake, G 1970, 'Iterative coarse to fine approach for interpretation of defect profiles using MFL measurements', 2015 IEEE 10th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2015 IEEE 10th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), IEEE, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 1099-1104.
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Falque, R, Vidal-Calleja, T, Miro, JV, Lingnau, DC & Russell, DE 1970, 'Background segmentation to enhance remote field eddy current signals', Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ARAA, Melbourne University.

Skinner, B, Vidal-Calleja, T, Miro, JV, De Bruijn, F & Falque, R 1970, '3D point cloud upsampling for accurate reconstruction of dense 2.5D thickness maps', Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ARAA, Melbourne University.

Ulapane, N, Alempijevic, A, Vidal-Calleja, T, Miro, JV, Rudd, J & Roubal, M 1970, 'Gaussian process for interpreting pulsed eddy current signals for ferromagnetic pipe profiling', 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2014 IEEE 9th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), IEEE, Hangzhou, PEOPLES R CHINA, pp. 1762-1767.
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Vidal-Calleja, T, Miro, JV, Martin, F, Lingnau, DC & Russell, DE 1970, 'Automatic detection and verification of pipeline construction features with multi-modal data', 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), IEEE, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 3116-3122.
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Vidal-Calleja, T, Su, D, De Bruijn, F & Miro, JV 1970, 'Learning spatial correlations for Bayesian fusion in pipe thickness mapping', 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, Hong Kong, pp. 1-8.
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Wijerathna, B, Vidal-Calleja, T, Kodagoda, S, Zhang, Q & Valls Miro, J 1970, 'Multiple defect interpretation based on Gaussian processes for MFL technology', SPIE Proceedings, SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, SPIE, San Diego, USA, pp. 86941Z-86941Z.
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FOR Codes: Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation, Automation and Control Engineering, Water Services and Utilities, Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.