An autonomous obstacles negotiating inspection robot for extra-high voltage power transmission lines

9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006, ICARCV '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhu, Xinglong ^a   Zhou, Jiping ^a   Wang, Hongguang ^b   Fang, Lijin ^b   Zhao, Mingyang ^b  

^a YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Control strategy; Inspection of power transmission lines; Mechamism design; Mobile robot

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; INSPECTION; TELESCOPES;

CONTROL STRATEGY; MECHAMISM DESIGN; VISIBLE LIGHT CAMERAS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 34547197782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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