Environment Perception Technologies for Power Transmission Line Inspection Robots

Cable-Climbing Robots for Power Transmission Lines Inspection

Power transmission line inspection is of utmost importance for power companies towards having sustainable electricity supply to vast number of customers in major industries as well as households in a city. Inspection provides valuable data from status of the line, thus helps line engineers to plan for necessary repair or replacement works before any major damages which may result in outage. Con...

Autonomous robot for a power transmission line inspection

Prototype Line Crawler for Power Line Inspection

In South Africa, electricity is supplied through thousands-of-kilometers of overhead power cables, which is owned by Eskom the national energy supplier. Currently monitoring of these overhead power cables are done by means of helicopter inspection flights and foot patrols, which are infrequent and expensive. In this paper, the authors present the design of a prototype power line crawler (inspec...

Analysis of Potential Power Sources for Inspection Robots in Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines

Robots for Live-power Lines: Maintenance and Inspection Tasks

This paper is focused on the robotic application for electrical live power lines maintenance. These tasks are matters of great significance for utilities companies, since their goal is to achieve a good quality of service. The main features of these works are that: the tasks are carried out over live-lines up to 90 kV; the robots are teleoperated by human operator; and a vehicle to place the ro...