Patent ID: 11965728
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An automated method of inspecting a pipe using artificial intelligence, the method comprising:
positioning the pipe with respect to a laser scanner using a positioning apparatus;
controlling, by an inspection circuit, a scanning of a size of the positioned pipe by the laser scanner;
identifying, by the inspection circuit, a specification and historical data of a type of the pipe by inputting the scanned size to an artificially intelligent module trained through machine learning to match input size data to standardized pipe types and output corresponding specifications and historical data of the standardized pipe types from a non-transitory memory device;
controlling, by the inspection circuit, a scanning of dimensions of the positioned pipe by the laser scanner using the scanned size and a dimension portion of the identified historical data;
comparing, by the inspection circuit, the scanned dimensions with standard dimensions from the identified specification;
detecting, by the inspection circuit, a dimension nonconformity of the pipe when the scanned dimensions are not within acceptable tolerances of the standard dimensions; and
in response to detecting the dimension nonconformity, generating, by the inspection circuit, an alert, and updating, by the inspection circuit, the memory device to reflect the detected dimension nonconformity in the dimension portion of the identified historical data.