Craig L. Champlin (CV)

Colorado School of Mines; PhD Candidate – Electrical Engineering, Information Systems Science concentration.

Colorado School of Mines; Masters – Computer Science; Wireless Sensing concentration.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Bachelors of Engineering – Mechanical Engineering; Materials Science concentration.

Craig L Champlin, Using odometry drift to match ILI joint boundaries for run comparisons in Int Jrn of Press Vessels and Pipelines, Feb 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpvp.2024.105351.
Nikos Salmatanis, Craig Champlin, A Tool for extracting leak-detecting smartballs from pressurized lines in 36th International Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Management Conference (PPIM 2024), January 2024.
Craig Champlin and John Steele, Using frequent inspections from semi-smart pigs to estimate the growth rate of individual wall loss anomalies in steel pipe at Pipeline Research Council Spring Research Meeting, February 2013.
Cotterell, Michael, J. Zheng, Q. Sun, Z. Wu, C. Champlin, and A. Beach, Facilitating Knowledge Sharing and Analysis in Energy Informatics with the Ontology for Energy Investigations (OEI), ISSN 1535-6078, Vol. 12, Sprouts, 2012.
Precise anomaly matching in densely corroded pipelines, Status: Writing
Frame matching for aligning inline inspection signals, Status: Writing

Marathon Energy: Piecewise Row-based ILI Survey Matching (PRISM)
OneBridge Solutions: An iterative Bayesian approach to the spatiotemporal analysis of pipeline inspections with smart pigs – Algorithm for matching features within a pipe joint
Chevron: “A bayesian belief network for predicting corrosion in difficult-to-inspect subsea pipelines”
PHMSA: Robust Anomaly Matching for ICIPs: Reducing Pipeline Assessment Uncertainty through 4-Dimension Anomaly Detection and Characterization – Competitive Academic Agreement Program (CAAP)
Spectra Energy: Software tool for strategic budgeting and scheduling of pipeline inspection and remediation projects
New Century Software: Continuous Assessment of Pipelines using Engineering Process Management
BassTrigon Software: Variable sensitivity analysis of the Kiefner pipeline integrity risk model
American Innovations: Communicating centerline changes between 1-D and 2-D pipeline centerline schemas for the purpose of continuous pipeline integrity management
BassTrigon Software: Risk Management Platform – Software Product Owner

In-pipe device catcher in U.S. Patent Office Pub. No.: US 12297949, Issued May 13, 2025
Pig Patrol: Integrated Cleaning and Inspecting Pig in Colorado School of Mines Capstone Design Project – Best in Show at Capstone Showcase of 48 teams
Pig Squad: Integrated Cleaning & Inspection Pig Localization Test Bench in Colorado School of Mines Capstone Design Project – 6th Place at Capstone Showcase of 60 teams

Ph.D. Qualifier: A evaluation of the suitability of common pattern-matching algorithms for comparing pipeline inspections
Ph.D. Qualifier: Shared Representative Appearance Learning for weighting inspection modalities for anomaly classification
Ph.D. Qualifier: Review of pipeline inspection robotics literature
Research: A variable velocity place recognition algorithm for inline inspection signal matching
Project: “Towards Wireless Monitoring of Corrosion in Steel Pipe: Localization” – Course: Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks
Project: “Developing sensor networks to support the paradigm of near-real-time infrastructure health monitoring for asset management by exception” – Course: Computer Networks