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Títol: Autonomous transmission tower inspection using UAV

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Director/a: VALERO GARCÍA, MIGUEL

Departament: DAC

Títol: Autonomous transmission tower inspection using UAV

Data inici oferta: 28-01-2023     Data finalització oferta: 28-09-2023


Estudis d'assignació del projecte:
    GR ENG SIS TELECOMUN
Tipus: Individual
 
Lloc de realització: EETAC
 
Paraules clau:
Drones, autonomous, inspection, power line
 
Descripció del contingut i pla d'activitats:
 
Overview (resum en anglès):
Monitoring and controlling the power grid is extremely important to prevent power outages and blackouts. Traditionally, the most common methods for inspecting high-voltage towers and power lines include visual inspections by qualified personnel, inspections by helicopters, and, in some cases, the use of specialized robots, among others. These inspections aim to detect anomalies near the infrastructure, anomalies due to hotspots in the insulation or visual defects in the various structural elements.

One of the main problems of these techniques is the high economic cost and the lack of accuracy. As an alternative, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more popular in the market, and the trend is gradually moving towards this technology, as it offers significant cost reduction, better mobility and flexibility, and great potential for obtaining high-quality images.

This thesis (TFG) studies the feasibility of developing a system capable of autonomously detecting high-voltage towers using an unmanned aerial vehicle and conducting power line inspections. This system consists of a desktop application that allows the user to program legs of a flight plan, and a drone that executes them and detects the high-voltage towers using an artificial intelligence model.

The system developed in this study is part of a contribution to the Drone Engineering Ecosystem (DEE), a platform for controlling and monitoring unmanned aerial vehicles using desktop and/or web applications. The main goal of this platform is the improvement and continuity of its development by future students.

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