A robot for installation and removal of aircraft warning spheres on aerial power transmission lines

Author

Campos, Mario F M ; Pereira, Guilherme A S ; Vale, Samuel R C ; Bracarense, Alexandre Q. ; Pinheiro, Gustavo A. ; Oliveira, Maurício P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Fed. de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Volume

18

Issue

4

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1581

Lastpage

1582

Abstract

This work presents the development of a mobile robot for autonomous installation and removal of aircraft warning spheres on overhead wires of electric power transmission lines. It will enable power distribution companies to replace highly dangerous operations which are currently performed by a human operator hanging off the side of a helicopter hovering a couple of meters away of live transmission lines. The robot was built and field tested in real operational situations and proved to be both efficient and robust.

Keywords

mobile robots; power overhead lines; aerial power transmission lines; aircraft warning spheres installation; aircraft warning spheres removal; mobile robot; overhead wires; power distribution companies; power transmission lines; robot; Aircraft; Couplings; Helicopters; Humans; Mobile robots; Power distribution; Power overhead lines; Power transmission lines; Testing; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRD.2003.817538

Filename

1234726