Development of robot mechanism for inspection of live-line suspension insulator string in 345kV power lines

Author

Park, Joon-Young ; Cho, Byung-Hak ; Lee, Jae-Kyung

Author_Institution

Strategic Technol. Lab., Korea Electr. Power Res. Inst., Daejeon

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2062

Lastpage

2065

Abstract

A new inspection robot mechanism for live-line suspension insulator strings was developed to prevent an insulator failure in power transmission lines. By adopting a wheel-leg moving mechanism, the robot structure becomes very simple, small-sized and lightweight. In addition, this mechanism is superior in insulation to the existing ones, because the number of the insulators contacted by the mechanism is only one. Through experiments, we confirmed its effectiveness.

Keywords

inspection; insulator testing; legged locomotion; power transmission lines; robot kinematics; inspection robot mechanism; insulator failure; live-line suspension insulator string; power transmission line; robot kinematics; voltage 345 kV; wheel-leg moving mechanism; Automatic control; Cleaning; Dielectrics and electrical insulation; Inspection; Kinematics; Mobile robots; Power transmission lines; Robotics and automation; Sections; Service robots; Insulator Inspection; Live-line Maintenance; Robot Mechanism; Wheel-Leg Type;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems, 2008. ICCAS 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-89-950038-9-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-89-93215-01-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAS.2008.4694432

Filename

4694432