TY - GEN
T1 - Efficient Path Planning Methods for UAVs Inspecting Power Lines
AU - Rafanavicius, Vytautas
AU - Cimmperman, Piotras
AU - Taluntis, Vladas
AU - Man, Ka Lok
AU - Volkvicius, Gintaras
AU - Jurkynas, Martynas
AU - Bezaras, Justas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/3/20
Y1 - 2017/3/20
N2 - Power line inspection is one of the most difficult and time consuming steps in power line maintenance. Even for a sizeable group of workers it takes months to inspect all of them, especially when they are not visible from the road and must be inspected on foot or with an aerial vehicle. That problem is even more prominent when the inspection must be done as fast as possible when the power cuts out in certain regions after natural disaster. To save time and reduce expenditure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) could be used to film the power lines and automatically find problems (e.g. a broken cable or a tree branch too close to the a line). Our research focuses on planning the route for the survey.
AB - Power line inspection is one of the most difficult and time consuming steps in power line maintenance. Even for a sizeable group of workers it takes months to inspect all of them, especially when they are not visible from the road and must be inspected on foot or with an aerial vehicle. That problem is even more prominent when the inspection must be done as fast as possible when the power cuts out in certain regions after natural disaster. To save time and reduce expenditure Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) could be used to film the power lines and automatically find problems (e.g. a broken cable or a tree branch too close to the a line). Our research focuses on planning the route for the survey.
KW - Graph
KW - Path planning
KW - Power line
KW - UAV
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018169509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PlatCon.2017.7883704
DO - 10.1109/PlatCon.2017.7883704
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85018169509
T3 - 2017 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2017 - Proceedings
BT - 2017 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2017 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2017
Y2 - 13 February 2017 through 15 February 2017
ER -