Operationalization of the sewer condition assessment tools

Project Member(s): Kodagoda, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Sydney Water Corporation
Sydney Water Corporation

Start year: 2021

Summary: Sydney Water funded a project to develop sensing and deployment strategies to evaluate amount of corrosion in concrete sewer walls. There are two tools developed: one as a hand-held unit for sewer traverse and a robotic system for 900mm - 1500mm diameter pipes. They are the first of their kind which can provide accurate and non-subjective information to make renewal decisions. They have been proven in the lab and sewers to a certain extent. They can be further interated with data analytics and utilized in an operationalization, through further validations and ruggadizations.

Publications:

Kodagoda, S, Kumar Viswanathan, V, Thiyagarajan, K, Tran, A, Wickramanayake, S, Barclay, S & Vitanage, D 2024, 'Robotics and Sensing for Condition Assessment of Wastewater Pipes' in Liu, D, Balaguer, C, Dissanayake, G & Kovac, M (eds), Infrastructure Robotics: Methodologies, Robotic Systems and Applications, Wiley, pp. 243-261.
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FOR Codes: Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services, Urban and Industrial Water Management, Field robotics, Mechatronics hardware design and architecture, Information extraction and fusion, Terrestrial systems and management not elsewhere classified