Title :
Robotic monitoring of power systems
Author :
Jiang, Bing ; Mamishev, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
fDate :
7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Monitoring of electric power systems in real time for reliability, aging status, and presence of incipient faults requires distributed and centralized processing of large amounts of data from distributed sensor networks. To solve this task, cohesive multidisciplinary efforts are needed from such fields as sensing, signal processing, control, communications, optimization theory, and, more recently, robotics. This review paper focuses on one trend of power system monitoring, namely, mobile monitoring. The developments in robotic maintenance for power systems indicate significant potential of this technological approach. Authors discuss integration of several important relevant sensor technologies that are used to monitor power systems, including acoustic sensing, fringing electric field sensing, and infrared sensing.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; distributed sensors; maintenance engineering; mobile robots; power distribution control; power distribution faults; power system measurement; acoustic sensing; centralized processing; distributed processing; distributed sensor networks; distribution power systems; electric field sensing; electric power system monitoring; incipient faults; infrared sensing; mobile monitoring; optimization theory; power system robotic monitoring; reliability; robotic maintenance; signal processing; Aging; Infrared sensors; Monitoring; Power system faults; Power system reliability; Power systems; Real time systems; Robot sensing systems; Sensor systems; Telecommunication network reliability; Automated maintenance; distribution power systems; mobile sensing; real-time monitoring; sensor arrays;
Journal_Title :
Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPWRD.2004.829918