3 accepted papers
This letter presents the first trajectory planning method for hybrid robot to perform powerline inspection involving obstacle navigation and landing. We develop a geometric model that incorporates constraints for landing the hybrid robot on a powerline, obstacle avoidance, and objectives that maximi
In scenarios of the overhead power line system, manual methods are inefficient and unsafe. Meanwhile, the majority of cantilevered robots have poor efficiency when crossing obstacles. This letter proposes a novel power line inspection and maintenance robot to solve these problems. The robot employs
In this paper, we design and build a power line inspection robot capable of hybrid operation modes. Specifically, the developed robot is able to land on the overhead ground wire (OGW) and to move as the climbing robot. When to negotiate obstacles, it can vertically take off the wire and fly over the…