A mobile robot for inspection of substation equipments

Author

Guo, Rui ; Han, Lei ; Sun, Yong ; Wang, Mingrui

Author_Institution

Electr. Power Robot. Lab., Shandong Electr. Power Res. Inst., Jinan, China

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Substation inspection has already benefited from developments in mobile robotics. Since 2002, over 10 substation inspection robots have been developed at Shandong Electric Power Institute. These robots carry visible light cameras and infrared thermographs which are used to detect invaders and equipments fault respectively. They move inside the substation and position for collecting images of possible critical points. This paper presents a review of some key techniques of these robots, such as autonomous navigation, autonomous battery charging and autonomous equipment recognition.

Keywords

image sensors; infrared imaging; inspection; mobile robots; robot vision; substations; Shandong electric power institute; autonomous battery charging; autonomous equipment recognition; autonomous navigation; infrared thermographs; mobile robot; substation equipments inspection; substation inspection robots; visible light cameras; Batteries; Inspection; Navigation; Robot sensing systems; Substations; Autonomous battery charging; Autonomous equipment recognition; Autonomous navigation; Substation inspection robot;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Robotics for the Power Industry (CARPI), 2010 1st International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6633-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CARPI.2010.5624455

Filename

5624455