Transmission line inspection robots: Design of the power supply system

Author

Caxias, Joao ; Silva, Fernando A. ; Sequeira, Joao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Inst. Super. Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This work aims to develop a power supply system to use with the RIOL robot, useful for inspecting high voltage overhead power lines. The power supply operating principle is based on the harvesting of the magnetic energy around the power supply lines by clamping a transformer around the line. A switching power rectifier, controlled to emulate a resistor, is then connected to the transformer secondary to obtain the robot needed voltages (55V ± 2.5%) and power (800W). Simulation results are presented and discussed.

Keywords

PWM rectifiers; energy harvesting; inspection; power overhead lines; power transformers; power transmission lines; robots; RIOL robot; high voltage overhead power line inspection; magnetic energy harvesting; power supply lines; power supply system design; switching power rectifier; transformer; transmission line inspection robots; Batteries; Circuit faults; Current transformers; Power supplies; Pulse width modulation; Robots; Switches; AC/DC converter; Current power transformer; PWM rectifier; Power supply system; Transformer; resistor emulating rectifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI), 2010 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6633-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CARPI.2010.5624426

Filename

5624426