In this paper, a new substation inspection robot system is introduced, to meet the application requirements of multi-parameter full-station automatic hierarchical insulation status power equipment in UHV ( Ultra-High Voltage ) substation. The designed control robots, including identifying number meters on cabinet, measuring partial discharge, temperature and humidity so . divided into two parts...

The use of mobile robots for inspection tasks is an attractive idea. A robot can travel through environments that humans cannot, and can be trained to identify sensor perceptions that signify potential or actual problems without requiring human intervention. However, in many cases, the appearance of a problem can vary widely, and ensuring that the robot does not miss any possible appearance of ...

Joint errors are inevitable in robot manipulation. These uncertainties propagate to give rise to translational and orientational errors in the position and orientation of the robot end-effector. The displacement of the active vision head mounted on the robot endeffector produces distortion of the projected object on the image. Upon active visual inspection, the observed dimension of a mechanica...

Power transmission involves the crucial part power supply over a country. Continues assessment and inspection can effectively promote the overall productivity of these energy systems. Deployment of mobile robots can provide an effective solution to this problem. In this paper inspection tasks performed by the robot carrying detection instruments and rolling/crawling along the overhead ground wi...

Purpose – To describe a robot designed and built to operate in outdoor environments hostile to the human presence, such as debris resulting from the collapse of built structures, and targeted to the tele-operated detection of potential survivors using a set of specific sensors whose information is transmitted to a remote human operator. Design/methodology/approach – RAPOSA’s mechanical structur...

Robotic systems performing end-user oriented autonomous exploration can be deployed in different scenarios which not only require mapping but also simultaneous inspection of regions interest for the end-user. In this work, we propose a novel Next-Best-View (NBV) planner perform full and user-oriented with using mobile manipulator robot. We address exploration-inspection problem as an instance M...

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...