Power Line Inspection Via an Unmanned Aerial System Based on the Quadrotor Helicopter

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2014-04-16

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Luque-Vega, Luis F.
Castillo-Toledo, Bernardino
Loukianov, Alexander
González-Jiménez, Luis E.

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IEEE

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The inspection of high voltage power transmission lines is mainly carried out by manned aerial vehicles or foot patrol. However, these maintenance methodologies for inspection are somehow inefficient and expensive. Moreover, helicopter assisted inspection endangers the human life. Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles have been under development in several research centers all over the world due to its potential applications. In this paper, we present an unmanned aerial system based on the quadrotor helicopter for high voltage power line inspection. Our interest is to equip the quadrotor helicopter with the necessary payload in order to be able to carry out a qualitative inspection, therefore the hardware architecture of the aerial robotic system is presented. Finally, some experimental results are shown to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system.

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Quadrotor, Power Line Inspection, Computer Vision

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Luque-Vega, L.F.; Castillo-Toledo, B.; Loukianov, A.; Gonzalez-Jimenez, L.E. (2014). Power Line Inspection Via an Unmanned Aerial System Based on the Quadrotor Helicopter. 17th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, 13-16 April.