On the prospects of the use of automated control systems of technical condition of the equipment of fuel-energy complex facilities using unmanned technologies
Currently, due to the introduction of a risk-based approach to hazardous facilities operation while ensuring the reliability of equipment and pipelines, priority is increasingly given to automated monitoring of technical condition. However, the introduction and use of such systems is very costly, not always justified by economic reasons. In addition, for geographically distributed production systems, such as oil and gas pipelines, the operation of such systems is associated with additional difficulties due to the necessity to place elements of the measuring system along the entire pipeline route. At the same time, a whole class of tasks for determining pipelines technical condition can be solved using automated control systems based on unmanned aerial vehicles. The paper analyzes the advantages of this method of monitoring the technical condition of production facilities, provides an example of a successful geotechnical survey of the gas pipeline by radio wave field of the Earth using unmanned technologies.