Development of Transmission Line Sleeve Inspection Robot

The line sleeves on power transmission line connects two conductors while the transmission line is constructing. However, the line sleeves sometimes cause transmission line break down, because the line sleeves are deteriorated and decayed by acid rain. When the transmission line is broken, the economical loss is huge. Therefore the line sleeves on power transmission lines should be inspected periodically to prevent power failure. In this paper, Korea Electric Power Research Institute reviewed several robots to inspect line status and proposes a robot to inspect line sleeve by measuring magnetic field on line sleeve. The developed inspection tool can reliable to move along transmission line and overcome several obstacles on transmission line. The developed system is also applied on power transmission line and verified the efficiency of the robot.

Authors:

• Jae-Kyung Lee
• Nam-Joon Jung
• Byung-Hak Cho

Keywords:

• Transmission line inspection
• line sleeve
• transmission line inspection robot
• line sleeve inspection

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