Inspection of insulators on high-voltage power transmission lines

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2319-2327

  Han, Sunsin ^a   Hao, Ru ^a,b   Lee, Jangmyung ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Inspection; Low frequency harmonics; Mobile robot; Porcelain insulator

Indexed keywords

COLORED NOISE; COMPLEX NOISE; CUMULANTS; FULL SPECTRUM; HARMONIC RETRIEVAL; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER TRANSMISSION; HUMAN SAFETY; INSPECTION DEVICES; INSPECTION METHODS; INSULATOR STRING; LIGHTNING OVER-VOLTAGE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY HARMONICS; PORCELAIN INSULATOR; PORCELAIN INSULATORS; POWER TRANSMISSION LINES; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; TESTING METHOD; TIME-AVERAGED; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

ELECTRIC LINES; INSPECTION; INSULATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; PORCELAIN; POWER TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350344323     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2028534     Document Type: Article

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