APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LOCATION OF UNDERGROUND FACILITY

• US 20120303304A1
• Filed: 05/17/2012
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ewootec Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ewootec Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Pyung, KIM, Yeol
• Application Number:
  US13/474,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/65
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 15/00 Tags attached to, or associated with, an object, in order to enable detection of the object record carriers for use with machines having a detectable tag or marker G06K19/00

Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for detecting a location of an underground facility, which calculates a gauss value at each depth of a magnetic marker, measures a magnetic field at each depth through each sensor based on the calculated gauss values, extracts factors by performing a factor analysis on the measured magnetic fields, obtains extracted variable values by performing a regression analysis on the extracted factors, stores the extracted variable values in a database, and determines a location of the magnetic marker based on the stored extracted variable values and the values measured by the sensors in real time.

Claims

1. A method for detecting a location of an underground facility, the method comprising the steps of:

calculating a gauss value at each depth of a magnetic marker;

measuring a magnetic field using each sensor at each depth based on the calculated gauss value;

extracting factors by performing a factor analysis on the measured magnetic fields;

obtaining and storing extracted variable values by performing a regression analysis on the extracted factors; and

determining a location of the magnetic marker based on the stored extracted variable values and the values measured by the sensors in real time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the gauss value at each depth is calculated by the following formula:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of extracting factors comprises the steps of:

extracting first factors by performing a principal component analysis based on the magnetic fields measured by the sensors; and

extracting second factors, which will used in the factor analysis, from the extracted factors by a factor rotation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step of determining the location of the magnetic marker, if the values measured by the sensors in real time satisfy the following regression formula, it is determined that the magnetic marker is present:

Y₂=a+bX₂+c(a+bX₁+cX₃). 

 

[Regression formula]

5. The method of claim 4, wherein in the step of determining the location of the magnetic marker, the depth corresponding to the extracted variable value when the above regression formula is satisfied is determined as the location of the magnetic marker.

6. An apparatus for detecting a location of an underground facility, the apparatus comprising:

a detector including at least three magnetic field sensors for detecting magnetic fields generated from a magnetic marker; and

a master processor for quantifying a gauss value of each sensor at each depth of the magnetic marker as one data by performing a factor analysis and a regression analysis and determining a location of the magnetic marker with respect to the measurement values output from the detector based on the quantified data.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the master processor determines that the magnetic marker is present if the measurement values satisfy the following regression formula:

Y₂=d+cX₂+f(a+bX₁+cX₃). 

 

[Regression formula]

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the master processor determines that the depth corresponding to the quantified data when the above regression formula is satisfied is the location of the magnetic marker.