PIG Tracking Utilizing Fiber Optic Distributed Vibration Sensor and YOLO

• Published in: Journal of lightwave technology Vol. 39; no. 13; pp. 4535 - 4541
• Main Authors: Sha, Zhou, Feng, Hao, Rui, Xiaobo, Zeng, Zhoumo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.07.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Event recognition; fiber optic distributed vibration sensor; Fiber optics; Leather; Object detection; Object recognition; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; phase sensitive optical time domain reflectometer; PIG tracking; Pipelines; Reflectometers; Sensors; Spacetime; Tracking; Vibration; Vibrations; Welded joints; Welding; YOLO

This paper proposed a strategy of tracking pipe PIG utilizing Fiber Optic Distributed Vibration Sensor (FODVS) and YOLO object detection algorithm. Phase sensitive Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (ϕ-OTDR) is employed as the distributed sensor to collect the real field vibration signal generated as...