A survey of mobile robots for distribution power line inspection

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 485-493

  Katrašnik, Jaka ^a   Pernuš, Franjo ^a   Likar, Boštjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Automatic visual inspection; Mobile robots; Power distribution line inspection; Power distribution line maintenance

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC VISUAL INSPECTION; CLIMBING ROBOTS; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; FLYING ROBOTS; INSPECTION QUALITY; INSPECTION ROBOTS; POWER DELIVERY; POWER DISTRIBUTION LINE INSPECTION; POWER DISTRIBUTION LINES; POWER LINES; RAPID DEVELOPMENT;

AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; GROUNDING ELECTRODES; HELICOPTERS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAINTENANCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

INSPECTION;

EID: 73849121774     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2009.2035427     Document Type: Article

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