Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Transmission Line Inspection: Status, Standardization, and Perspectives

As the biggest country in power consumption and generation, China owns largest scale of transmission line worldwide. The application unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection has been carried out for many years because its strong adaptability safety compared to traditional manual way. For further development UAV technology inspection, accumulated rich experiences greatly improved efficiency formed a relatively complete standardization system including operation management, an equipment configuration method, functional quality requirements. However, there still exist some obstacles that need be tackled due fact China’s international promotion have not thoroughly comprehensively studied at present. Based on in-depth analysis current system, this study employs SWOT-PEST insightfully investigate opportunities/challenges under situation, upon which several constructive suggestions are proposed from four aspects politics, economy, society, technology. ultimate purpose is design feasible schemes boost