Title :
Safe flight envelope for overhead line inspection
Author :
Antunes, S. ; Bousson, K.
Author_Institution :
Aerosp. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Beira Interior, Lisbon, Portugal
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CARPI.2014.7030041
