A machine vision and machine intelligence aided electronic and computer system for assisting on formation drilling, boring, tunneling on-line guidance, assisted decision and dull grading system for drilling tool and associated drill string components

Abstract

An electronic system is disclosed comprising of a drill tool which is mounted on a mechanical system with either a position and angular sensor assisted guidance of the camera itself around the drill tool in a guided trajectory as in a robotic arm or mobile device on the field with the drill tool pulled out from the wellbore or when the tool can be imaged while in operation; multiple fixed cameras on a test or working rig coupled with rotary control of the drill tool, and a controller capable of controlling the drill string motor and imaging. The system automatically profiles the degraded/worn out drill tool, when the drill string-drill tool is visually available or pulled out, by executing a host of machine vision engineering based and machine intelligence/data analytics engineering algorithms, where the algorithms can calculate and provide detailed current/predictive and prescriptive analysis of the drilling tool.

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