Review of autonomous inspection technology for power lines using UAVs

Experimental Evaluation of a Geometry-Aware Aerial Visual Inspection Framework in a Constrained Environment

“…The application of aerial robotic vehicles have been actively studied by the academia towards navigation, exploration and mapping in constrained environments in the last decade [1]- [5]. Robotic solutions to perform structural monitoring of 3D infrastructures, such as employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to perform visual inspection of highrise structures such as dams [6]- [8], bridges [9]- [11], civil buildings [12], [13], remote wind-turbines [14], [15] power lines [16], [17] and rail tracks [18], [19] has received lot of attention due to their inherent versatility and low-operational cost. Due to their inherent versatility to be rapidly configured for the task at hand and being a cost-effective method in recent years, aerial robots have been actively incorporated into inspection and diagnosis of large ageing structures.…”