Paper Info
Title
SmartGuard: An autonomous robotic system for inspecting substation equipment.
Abstract
Substation equipment inspection is necessary for the power industry. With the dramatic increase in the number of substations, unmanned substations are required by the industry. This paper presents SmartGuard, a completely autonomous robotic system that can inspect substation equipment. SmartGuard consists of a robot and a data center. The robot can patrol in a substation and inspect equipment with a visible-light camera and an infrared thermograph. The acquired images and temperature information are analyzed by the data center. The data center can fuse infrared and visible-light images and find abnormal hot spots and abnormal appearance. There are 13 SmartGuards currently serving 12 substations, some of which have been working for more than 2 years. The feedback from the field shows that SmartGuard significantly improves the efficiency and reliability of substation inspection. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/rob.20423
JOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Robotic systems,Abnormal appearance,Simulation,Electric power industry,Engineering,Fuse (electrical),Robot,Data center
Journal
29
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP1
1556-4959
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Binhai Wang142.55
Rui Guo271.12
Bingqiang Li331.51
Lei Han420.47
Yong Sun520.47
Ming-rui Wang6342.33