Skip to main content

Table 1 Earlier studies of pipe routing

From: A visual tool for accessibility study of pipeline maintenance during design

Algorithm

Network optimization

Maze

Escape

Genetic

Author

Newell

Wangdahl

Zhu

Guiradello

Rourke

Mitsuta

Schmidt

Ito

Year

1972

1974

1991

2005

1975

1987

1998

1999

Dimension

3D

2D

2D/3D

3D

3D

3D

3D

2D

Domain

General

Ship

Robotics

Plant

General

General

Plant

General

Operation/maintenance

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Installation

-

-

-

-

-

Safety

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

  1. -: not considered, : partially implemented, : fully implemented.