With the growth of the national economy, there is increasing demand for electricity, which forces transmission line corridors to become structurally complicated and extend to complex environments (e.g., mountains, forests). It is a great challenge to...
To reduce the workload of inspectors and improve the inspection efficiency of urban transmission towers, a new inspection method is proposed in this paper, in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and vehicle cooperate with each other. We investigat...
UAV transmission tower inspection is the use of UAV technology for regular inspection and troubleshooting of towers on transmission lines, which helps to improve the safety and reliability of transmission lines and ensures the stability of the power...
In order to improve the efficiency of UAVs in transmission tower inspections, the UAV transmission tower inspection energy consumption model is proposed for the existing research in which there is no accurate energy consumption calculation method in...
To address the issue of human object detection in transmission line inspection, an enhanced single-stage neural network is proposed, which is based on the improvement of the YOLOv7-tiny model. Firstly, a lighter GSConv module is utilized to optimize...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become an important tool for transmission line inspection, and the inspection images taken by UAVs often contain complex backgrounds and many types of targets, which poses many challenges to object detection algor...
Overhead transmission line corridor detection is important to ensure the safety of power facilities. Frequent and uncertain changes in the transmission line corridor environment requires an efficient and autonomous UAV inspection system, whereas the...
As the scale of the power grid continues to expand, the human-based inspection method struggles to meet the needs of efficient grid operation and maintenance. Currently, the existing UAV inspection system in the market generally has short endurance p...
To enhance the safety of hybrid inspection robots (HIRs) landing on power transmission lines (PTLs) with inclination and flexibility, this research derives a coupled dynamic model for a developed flying–walking power transmission line inspectio...
This paper introduces a position controller for drone transmission line inspection (TLI) utilizing the integral sliding mode control (SMC) method. The controller, leveraging GNSS and visual deviation data, exhibits high accuracy and robust anti-inter...
Electricity is fundamental for all modern infrastructures, while disruptions in transmission networks could result in severe failures in healthcare, transportation, communication, industry, and all related to public safety. However, inspection of ove...
Regular inspection of transmission lines is an essential work, which has been implemented by either labor intensive or very expensive approaches. 3D reconstruction could be an alternative solution to satisfy the need for accurate and low cost inspect...
The reliable inspection of power transmission and distribution infrastructure is essential for ensuring energy security, operational continuity, and asset reliability. Conventional inspection procedures are labor-intensive, costly, and often expose m...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in power transmission line inspection nowadays and they need to navigate automatically by recognizing the category and accurate position of transmission pylon equipment in line inspection. Semantic segm...
This paper presents an anti-swing control method to prevent situations where inspection robots detach and fall off transmission lines during obstacle crossing due to excessive swing angles caused by the rotation of the robot around the transmission l...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection of transmission towers requires joint analysis of corridor geometry, tower components, and localized defects, whereas available datasets provide incompatible annotations at different scales. Tower-HMT is a hie...
Vibration damper detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based transmission line inspection presents distinctive task-specific challenges: the targets are not only small and weakly textured, but also characterized by slender structures. Their effe...
Insulator faults detection is an important task for high-voltage transmission line inspection. However, current methods often suffer from the lack of accuracy and robustness. Moreover, these methods can only detect one fault in the insulator string,...
To address the edge blurring issue of drone inspection images of mountainous transmission lines caused by non-uniform haze interference, as well as the low operational efficiency of traditional dehazing algorithms due to increased network complexity,...
Insulator detection is one of the most significant issues in high-voltage transmission line inspection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and has attracted attention from researchers all over the world. The state-of-the-art models in object detect...
In order to improve the flight efficiency of a flying–walking power transmission line inspection robot (FPTLIR) during flight missions, an accurate energy consumption model is constructed, and a multiobjective optimization approach using the im...
To ensure the safe operation of high-voltage transmission line inspection robots during downhill descents without power and extend their range after a single charge, this paper proposes an energy-saving speed control method for the inspection robot&r...
As an important means to ensure the safety of power transmission, the inspection of overhead transmission lines requires high accuracy for detecting small objects on the transmission lines and relies heavily on the construction of large-scale dataset...
With the rapid development of microelectronics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for electric inspection tasks have become popular. Among these tasks, transmission line inspections are more complicated than component and tower inspections owing to the...
Due to the limitation of the computing power and energy resources, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) team usually offloads the inspection task to the cloud for processing when performing emergency fault inspection, which will lead to low efficiency of...
Defects in high voltage transmission line components such as cracked insulators, broken wires rope, and corroded power line joints, are very common due to continuous exposure of these components to harsh environmental conditions. Consequently, they p...
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have been increasingly used in power line inspections. Birds often nest on transmission line towers, which threatens safe power line operation. The existing research on bird’s nest inspection usin...
As crucial predecessor tasks for fault detection and transmission line inspection, insulators, anti-vibration hammers, and arc sag detection are critical jobs. Due to the complexity of the high-voltage transmission line environment and other factors,...
The deployment of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for transmission line inspections, has brought attention to the potential impact of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) on UAV operations. This work describes a mathematical model based on...
The global rise in electricity demand necessitates extensive transmission infrastructure, where insulators play a critical role in ensuring the safe operation of power transmission systems. However, insulators are susceptible to burst defects, which...
Accurate detection and timely management of high-voltage transmission accessories are crucial for ensuring the safe operation of power transmission. Existing network models suffer from issues like low precision in accessory detection, elevated model...
Insulators are important safety devices on high-voltage transmission lines. An insulator inspection system based on UAVs is widely used. Insulator defect detection is performed against two main engineering problems: 1. The scarcity of defect images,...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become important tools for power transmission line inspection. Cameras installed on the platforms can efficiently obtain aerial images containing information about power equipment. However, most of the existing in...
With the development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control technology, one of the recent trends in this research domain is to utilize UAVs to perform non-contact transmission line inspection. The RGB camera mounted on UAVs collects large numbers o...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) inspection of transmission lines faces two primary challenges when detecting and analyzing components or defects in videos or images: poor performance in detecting small objects, and interference from complex backgrounds...
Broken or loose strands in high-voltage transmission conductors constitute critical defects that jeopardize grid reliability. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection has become indispensable for their timely discovery; however, conventional detector...
With the continuous development of the power Internet of Things (PIoT), smart devices (SDs) have been widely used in electric power inspections. Due to the limited resources of intelligent inspection SDs and the distance of overhead transmission line...
With the increasing application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the inspection of high-voltage overhead transmission lines, the study of the safety distance between drones and wires has received extensive attention. The determination of the saf...
The normal operation of a power grid largely depends on the effective monitoring and maintenance of transmission lines, which is a process that has many challenges. The traditional method of the manual or remote inspection of transmission lines is ti...
Transmission lines traversing forested areas pose significant fire risks, necessitating timely and efficient inspection mechanisms. Traditional manual patrols and cloud-based UAV inspections suffer from high latency, bandwidth dependence, and delayed...
The rapid development of the smart grid has led to higher maintenance cost and greater scalability of transmission lines. An effective and secure monitoring system for power lines has become a bottleneck restricting the intellectualization of power g...
High-resolution imagery captured by drones can detect critical components on high-voltage transmission towers, providing inspection personnel with essential maintenance insights and improving the efficiency of power line inspections. The high-resolut...
The detection of foreign material residues in fiber-reinforced composites (FRCs) is crucial, as such residues weaken the structural performance, especially when the acoustic impedance of the foreign material closely matches that of the composite mate...
Regular inspection of the insulator operating status is essential to ensure the safe and stable operation of the power system. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection has played an important role in transmission line inspection, replacing former man...
Aiming at the core pain point that in existing object detection models, it is difficult to balance detection accuracy and real-time inference efficiency on edge computing devices in UAV-based intelligent inspection of power transmission lines, this p...
The use of drones to inspect transmission lines is an important task for the energy maintenance department to ensure the stability and safety of power transmission. However, the current electric power inspection is inseparable from the participation...
One of the key challenges in Multi-Spectral Automatic Diagnostic (MAD) robot design is the precise targeting of narrow-angle cameras on a specific part of the equipment. The paper shows that a low-cost MAD robot, whose navigation system is based on o...
UAV inspection images of transmission line spacers often contain small-scale defect targets, complex backgrounds, and weak fine-grained features. We propose MFIA-YOLO, a small-object defect detection model for spacer defects. Using the lightweight YO...
With the continuous advancement of the “dual-carbon” strategy, the penetration of renewable energy sources such as wind and photovoltaic (PV) power has steadily increased, imposing more stringent requirements on the safe and stable operat...
At present, the method of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with traditional navigation equipment for inspection of overhead transmission lines has the limitations of expensive sensors, difficult data processing, and vulnerable to weather and env...
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