APPROACH TO AUTOMATION OF FIELD DIAGNOSIS DATA INTERPRETATION FOR LOCALIZATION OF PITTING IN THE PIPELINE WALL

The development of pipeline systems of hydrocarbon transportation and their ageing cause the need for the creation of a contactless system for express-diagnostics of pre-breaking conditions. Low-contrasting physical responses from the damaged pipeline sections are localized by the methods of interpretation of an anomalous magnetic field. The authors consider the problem of limiting automation of interpretation procedure with the estimation of the expert's role decrease. Despite the commercial attractiveness of the idea of automation, one cannot ignore the paradox in a possible solution of the problem: any automation is based on a particular model but this model is developed with the application of experience of a particular expert.