Sensors for the Non-Destructive Evaluation of ACSR, deployed with Live-Line Robotics

摘要

For more than 15 years, Hydro-Quebec's IREQ have been the developing and promoting the use of live-line robots for the live-line inspection of power lines. LineROVer and LineScout initiatives have been extensively used to perform visual inspections in critical situations such as hard to reach river crossings or mountain spans. Other simple yet effective manipulation tasks were performed such as damper retrieval over highway or seaway, overhead ground wires temporary repairs, or stringing of cables to refurbish earthwires that have reached their end-of-life.