Pneumatic-Mechanical Systems in UAVs: Autonomous Power Line Sensor Unit Deployment
Nicolai Iversen Aljaž Kramberger Oscar Bowen Schofield Emad Ebeid Nicolai Iversen Aljaž Kramberger Oscar Bowen Schofield Emad Ebeid
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 so...