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dc.contributor.authorGouws, Rupert
dc.contributor.authorDu Plessis, Nicolaas
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-29T07:57:40Z
dc.date.available2016-07-29T07:57:40Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationGouws, R. & Du Plessis, N. 2013. Prototype line crawler for power line inspection. Journal of energy and power engineering, 7(11):2174-2180. [http://www.davidpublisher.com/Home/Journal/JEPE]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1934-8975
dc.identifier.issn1934-8983 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/18100
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.davidpublisher.com/index.php/Home/Article/index?id=19393.html
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17265/1934-8975/2013.11.021
dc.description.abstractIn South Africa, electricity is supplied through thousands-of-kilometers of overhead power cables, which is owned by Eskom the national energy supplier. Currently monitoring of these overhead power cables are done by means of helicopter inspection flights and foot patrols, which are infrequent and expensive. In this paper, the authors present the design of a prototype power line crawler (inspection robot) for the monitoring of these overhead power lines in South Africa. The designed prototype power line crawler is capable of driving on the wire, balancing on the wire and is capable of maneuvering past certain obstacles found on the overhead power cables. The prototype power line crawler is designed to host a monitoring system that monitors the power line as the inspection robot drives on it. Various experimental tests were performed and are presented in this paper, showing the capability of performing these tasks. This prototype inspection robot ensures a platform for future development in this areaen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDavid Publishingen_US
dc.subjectInspection roboten_US
dc.subjectline crawleren_US
dc.subjectpower linesen_US
dc.subjectmaneuverabilityen_US
dc.subjectcenter of gravityen_US
dc.subjectbalancingen_US
dc.titlePrototype line crawler for power line inspectionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID11760052 - Gouws, Rupert


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