Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment

Nicolai Iversen; Aljaz Kramberger; Oscar Bowen Schofield; Emad Ebeid

doi:10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560946

Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment

Nicolai Iversen^*, Aljaz Kramberger, Oscar Bowen Schofield, Emad Ebeid

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Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have introduced benefits in many areas of the energy sector. Today, power line sensor deployment is manually executed on passive power lines using helicopters, introducing great risks, costs and difficulties for the power distribution companies and the human operators.

In this paper, we present a novel modular mechanical system utilizing pneumatic as the actuation source to deploy a sensor unit to a power line using a UAV, with aid of an autonomous alignment algorithm. The results show that the UAV can facilitate the sensor unit, and is capable of deploying it to the power line in an autonomous manner. The works leave opportunity for expanding to further applications in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	Oct 2021
Pages	548-554
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-9077-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560946
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021
Event	2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), IEEE. - Xi'an, China Duration: 30. May 2021 → 5. Jun 2021

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Conference	2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), IEEE.
Country/Territory	China
City	Xi'an
Period	30/05/2021 → 05/06/2021

Series	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ISSN	1050-4729

Keywords

Mechanical
Pneumatic
Autonomous
UAS

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10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560946

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Iversen, N, Kramberger, A , Schofield, OB & Ebeid, E 2021, Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment. in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 548-554, 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), IEEE., Xi'an, China, 30/05/2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560946

Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment. / Iversen, Nicolai; Kramberger, Aljaz ; Schofield, Oscar Bowen et al.
2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2021. p. 548-554 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation).

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Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment

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