LineScout Technology Opens the Way to Robotic Inspection and Maintenance of High-Voltage Power Lines

Pouliot, Nicolas; Richard, Pierre-Luc; Montambault, Serge

doi:10.1109/jpets.2015.2395388

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“…Line-Scout is the most efficient line inspection robot developed by Hydro-Quebec Canada. Line scout can surmount obstacles by gripping the line with its arm frame which is designed for obstacle navigation and moving the wheel frame forward along with the centre frame [10][11][12]. It comprises of three subsystems: a wheel frame, a centre frame, and the arm frame.…”

Section: Existing Power-line Inspection Robotsmentioning

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Dual arm electrical transmission line robot: motion through straight and jumper cable

2019

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Ground-based high voltage electrical line inspection is one of the difficult and highly dangerous job as far as a manual worker is concerned. The transmission line inspection by robots avoids temporary interruption of power supply that affects the end user and transmission grid. Also, robot-based inspection reduces maintenance cost and hazards. The electrical line inspection is normally carried out using binoculars and rarely by helicopters in most of the countries because of the low cost. Wire traversing or aerial robots are being used in Japan, Canada, USA and Russia for inspecting and monitoring faults in transmission lines and towers. However, most of these robots require a lot of human effort for installation due to its weight and complex design. Cost of these robots is also very high. This paper presents the mechanical design, fabrication and testing of a novel, low cost, light weight and compact power transmission line inspection robot. This work also includes kinematic, static and dynamic analysis of various subsystems of robot. Proposed robot is capable of traversing on straight transmission line and jumper cables present in tension towers. The robot has 10 DoF dual arm for crossing operation and a base system to achieve the locomotion.

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Dual arm electrical transmission line robot: motion through straight and jumper cable

2019

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“…Proyecto Pelicano, es un sistema de robot aéreo, tipo helicóptero para la inspección de líneas eléctricas. Se trata de un vehículo aéreo no tripulado capaz de navegar de forma autónoma y capturar imágenes, minimizando los riesgos de seguridad y coste comparado con helicópteros tripulados [11].…”

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Design and simulation of a mobile robot, for the inspection of electrical lines

Eibar¹,

Gavilane²,

Pérez³

et al. 2018

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Abstract. A mobile robot was designed and simulated for the inspection of electrical lines, which seeks to investigate alternatives that have the main necessary characteristics to perform these inspection tasks and implement them in a robot of accessible costs. In the robot design was modeled its mechanical parts in 3D and then previously taken to a virtual simulation software (Vrep), in which the sequence of movements were programmed, to pass obstacles.

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“…erefore, Pouliot et al and Wang et al [8,9] show that the spacer bar is installed at a certain distance between the gears, which can restrain not only the gears vibration but also the breeze vibration. However, Ngo et al, Sun et al, Lu et al, and Li et al [10][11][12][13], respectively, proposed the factors such as breeze, ice, rain, and snow can cause the displacement and corrosion of spacer bars.…”

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Operation Motion Planning and Principle Prototype Design of Four-Wheel-Driven Mobile Robot for High-Voltage Double-Split Transmission Lines

Jiang

et al. 2020

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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In response to the problems of high labor intensity, high risk, and poor reliability of artificial live working, a four-wheel-driven spacer bar replacement mobile operation robot has been designed and developed in this paper, and the corresponding kinematic and dynamics model have been established, based on the established double models, the kinematics and dynamics numerical analysis can be realized through INVENTOR and ADAMS, respectively, based on the established kinematics and dynamics models . The results show that the simulation value of the robot joint displacement, velocity, acceleration, and joint force can be able to meet the requirements of kinematic and dynamic constraints during the robot operation. The robot prototype can meet the requirement of dual-split robot working space and the operation joint force control, which not only extend the robot adaptability to the multisplit lines heterogeneous operation environment but also provide an important theoretical technical support for the exploit of the robot physical prototype. Through the robot kinematics and dynamics analysis, the robot mechanical structure parameters and electrical control parameters have been effectively optimized. The weight and cost of the robot have been reduced by 12% and 15% compared to the existed studies. Finally, the robot principle prototype mobile platform has been developed, and the correctness of robot kinematics and dynamics simulation analysis has been verified through the robot principle prototype mobile platform.

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LineScout Technology Opens the Way to Robotic Inspection and Maintenance of High-Voltage Power Lines

Cited by 105 publications

References 16 publications

Dual arm electrical transmission line robot: motion through straight and jumper cable

Dual arm electrical transmission line robot: motion through straight and jumper cable

Design and simulation of a mobile robot, for the inspection of electrical lines

Operation Motion Planning and Principle Prototype Design of Four-Wheel-Driven Mobile Robot for High-Voltage Double-Split Transmission Lines

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