Inspecting transmission lines with an unmanned fixed-wings aircraft

Author

Gang Dong ; Xiguang Chen ; Binhai Wang ; Jingjing Zhang ; Liang Liu ; Qiang Wang ; Chuanhu Wei

Author_Institution

Electr. Power Robot. Lab., Shandong Electr. Power Res. Inst., Jinan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

174

Abstract

With the rapid extention of the electric transmission network, the workload of the inspection of transmission lines increases dramatically. Unmanned fixed-wings aircrafts (UFV), a kind of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), can be applied to transmission line inspection to improve the efficiency. This paper introduces and discusses the application of a UFA to transmission line inspection. The inspection system includes flight platform, wireless communication system and inspection instruments. The main inspection tools are the visible light camera and camcorder. The aim of inspection is to find any device damages and get the information of transmission line corridor. This paper also introduces several inspections in Shandong, China.

Keywords

aircraft; autonomous aerial vehicles; cameras; inspection; power transmission lines; China; Shandong; camcorder; device damages; electric transmission network; flight platform; inspection instruments; inspection system; inspection tools; transmission line corridor; transmission line inspection; unmanned aerial vehicle; unmanned fixed-wings aircraft; visible light camera; wireless communication system; Cameras; Helicopters; Inspection; Instruments; Power transmission lines; Wireless communication; inspection; towers; transmission lines; unmanned fixed-wings aircrafts;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI), 2012 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4585-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CARPI.2012.6473355

Filename

6473355