Safe flight envelope for overhead line inspection

Author

Antunes, S. ; Bousson, K.

Author_Institution

Aerosp. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Beira Interior, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The present work aims to improve the safety of overhead power line inspection and similar tasks. Due to the proximity of objects imposed by the inspection missions, the appliance of Extended Kalman Filter for quadrotor attitude control in a supervised environment was proposed. Verification of electrical lines and their infrastructure is an essential activity to ensure the undisturbed operation of the electrical grid and supply energy to final consumers. Development of versatile monitoring systems to inspect high voltage overhead lines represents an invaluable element for the maintenance of these, for corrective actions and especially preventive.

Keywords

Kalman filters; attitude control; inspection; nonlinear filters; power filters; power grids; power overhead lines; rotors; appliance; electrical grid; electrical lines; extended Kalman filter; final consumers; high voltage overhead lines; object proximity; overhead power line inspection; quadrotor attitude control; safe flight envelope; supervised environment; supply energy; versatile monitoring systems; Atmospheric modeling; Home appliances; Indexes; Inspection; Jacobian matrices; Monitoring; Protocols; Autonomous; Flight Envelopes; Overhead Power Lines; Robotic; Supervisory Control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI), 2014 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Foz do Iguassu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6420-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CARPI.2014.7030041

Filename

7030041