Measurement of Power Line Sagging Using Sensor Data of a Power Line Inspection Robot

Autonomous robot for a power transmission line inspection

A Climbing-Flying Robot for Power Line Inspection

Our society is becoming increasingly more dependent on reliable electric power supply. Since power outages cause substantial financial losses to the producers, distributors and also to the consumers of electric power, it is in the common interest to minimize failures on power lines. To detect the defects early and to accordingly schedule the maintenance activities, the distribution networks are...

Automatic Power Line Inspection Using UAV Images

Power line inspection ensures the safe operation of a power transmission grid. Using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images of power line corridors is an effective way to carry out these vital inspections. In this paper, we propose an automatic inspection method for power lines using UAV images. This method, known as the power line automatic measurement method based on epipolar constraints (PLAME...

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...

Power Line Interference Cancelling in EEG Inspection

This paper presents a FIR adaptive filter to cancelling interference due to 50 Hz power line in human electroencephalographic (EEG) inspection. An overview of EEG techniques to study brain activity will be outlined. Then, the problem of spurious signal rejection, in this particular handset, shows the meaningfull application of adaptive filter structure. Poles of filter are driven to find an opt...