Title :
Autonomous robot for a power transmission line inspection
Author :
Peungsungwal, S. ; Pungsiri, B. ; Chamnongthai, K. ; Okuda, M.
Author_Institution :
King Mongkut´´s Univ. of Technol., Bangkok, Thailand
Abstract :
An autonomous robot for power transmission line inspection, that can induce the voltage from the transmission line as a power source, is presented. The robot uses current transformer principle to induce the current from power transmission line and vision function to navigate. The results have shown that the robot can automatically move along the power transmission line
Keywords :
automatic optical inspection; current transformers; maintenance engineering; mobile robots; power transmission lines; robot vision; autonomous robot; current transformer principle; edge detection; power source unit; power transmission line inspection; robot navigation; secondary coils; vision function; Circuits; Coils; DC motors; Equations; Image edge detection; Inspection; Insulation; Magnetic cores; Power transmission lines; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6685-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921261
