Expliner - Robot for inspection of transmission lines

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3978-3984

  Debenest, Paulo ^a,b   Guarnieri, Michele ^b   Takita, Kensuke ^a   Fukushima, Edwardo F ^b   Hirose, Shigeo ^b   Tamura, Kiyoshi ^c   Kimura, Akihiro ^c   Kubokawa, Hiroshi ^d   Iwama, Narumi ^d   Shiga, Fuminori ^d  

^a HiBot Corporation   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^c KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

^d J Power Systems Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INSPECTION; POWER TRANSMISSION; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; ROBOTICS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

FIELD CONDITIONS; HIGH VOLTAGES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649086976     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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