Drones for Inspection of Overhead Power Lines with Recharge Function

Bögel, Gerd vom; Cousin, Linda; Iversen, Nicolai; Ebeid, Emad; Hennig, Andreas

doi:10.1109/dsd51259.2020.00084

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“…Within this work, a 6cell Lithium-Polymer (Li-Po) battery is used with a capacity of 12000 mAh. Typical average PTL currents (for 38 mm conductor cables) are assumed to be in the range of 400 A to 600 A, with a maximum current up to 1400 A [10]. In the scenario of a short circuit, PTL currents may even reach 40 kA within a period of 1 to 3 seconds.…”

Section: A Electrical: Energy Harvestingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some research activities also aim to charge drone batteries [7][8] [9], it was observed that none of the developed systems were light enough to be carried by a drone (without demand for a much larger battery) and at the same time able to recharge a drone battery in a reasonable amount of time. To compare different harvesting devices, the power to weight ratio was introduced in [10]. In the end, this should be applied to the weight of the electronics and necessary mechanism as well and not the only harvesting device.…”

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Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power line Inspection

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2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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Section: A Electrical: Energy Harvestingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power line Inspection

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Cousin

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2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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“…In ref. [70], the UAV uses an inductive harvester device to harvest enough power from power lines to recharge its battery. However, there is no navigation path planning for UAVs.…”

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Efficient unmanned aerial vehicle paths design for post‐disaster damage assessment of overhead transmission lines

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The widespread distribution of overhead transmission lines increases the vulnerability of power grids to failures. Thus, power lines need to be timely inspected, especially before or during emergency‐related situations to ensure stable operation of the power grid. Traditional methods of visual inspection (satellites and helicopters) are inconvenient, often cannot be deployed and if they are deployed present a slow response time and high cost, which is very critical for fast post‐disaster damage identification. On the other hand, employing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) offers a more efficient, reliable, and faster means for the assessment process. This article proposes a novel approach for the post‐disaster UAV‐based damage assessment of overhead power lines. In the proposed approach, the UAVs paths over the most critical loads are formulated as an optimisation problem with the objective of minimising the total inspection time while considering the recharging of the UAVs' batteries. To solve the problem, an efficient framework that optimises the UAVs flight paths is proposed to inspect the critical loads in an efficient order, while accounting for the UAV recharging. This guarantees that the UAVs complete the assessment tasks unlike existing benchmarks.

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“…According to Mazur et al [53], the estimated potential market value for drones in the infrastructure sector is 45.2 billion dollars. There are many uses for drones in infrastructure including inspection of power lines [54], [55], pipelines [56], [57], vertical structures [58], [59], damns [60], bridges [61], railways [62], and other areas. Drones can also be used for photogrammetry [63], sensing, and data collection [64].…”

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Civil Applications: A Review

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The use of drones, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has significantly increased across a variety of applications over the past few years. This is due to the rapid advancement towards the design and production of inexpensive and dependable UAVs and the growing request for the utilization of such platforms particularly in civil applications. With their intrinsic attributes such as high mobility, rapid deployment and flexible altitude, UAVs have the potential to be utilized in many wireless system applications. On the one hand, UAVs are able to operate as flying mobile terminals within wireless/cellular networks to support a variety of missions such as goods delivery, search and rescue, precision agriculture monitoring, and remote sensing. On the other hand, UAVs can be utilized as aerial base stations to increase wireless communication coverage, reliability, and the capacity of wireless systems without additional investment in wireless systems infrastructure. The aim of this article is to review the current applications of UAVs for civil and commercial purposes. The focus of this paper is on the challenges and communication requirements associated with UAV-based communication systems. This article initially classifies UAVs in terms of various parameters, some of which can impact UAVs' communication performance. It then provides an overview of aerial networking and investigates UAVs routing protocols specifically, which are considered as one of the challenges in UAV communication. This article later investigates the use of UAV networks in a variety of civil applications and considers many challenges and communication demands of these applications. Subsequently, different types of simulation platforms are investigated from a communication and networking viewpoint. Finally, it identifies areas of future research.

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Drones for Inspection of Overhead Power Lines with Recharge Function

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power line Inspection

Design, Integration and Implementation of an Intelligent and Self-recharging Drone System for Autonomous Power line Inspection

Efficient unmanned aerial vehicle paths design for post‐disaster damage assessment of overhead transmission lines

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications for Civil Applications: A Review

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