The country strongly supports the development of new energy industries,with the clean energy wind power industry developing rapidly and the market maturing,the scale of wind farms and installed capaci-ty expanding,and...The country strongly supports the development of new energy industries,with the clean energy wind power industry developing rapidly and the market maturing,the scale of wind farms and installed capaci-ty expanding,and the blade length increasing to 60-70m.The increased blade length and weight increase the probability of damage.the manual inspection method is time-consuming and laborious,with a high economic cost,low inspection efficiency,and high safety risks,and cannot meet the current wind turbine fast and efficient inspection requirements.This paper introduces the characteristics of the type of UAV,its working status,and mode,and proposes how to determine the best area for UAV inspection according to the factors that can cause interference to the inspection in the actual wind field,to achieve the demand for fast and efficient inspection of the blade surface and improve the accuracy of inspection.It is believed that with the development of UAV technology,UAVs will play a more important role in the field of inspection.展开更多
To address complex work conditions incredibly challenging to the stability of power line inspection robots,we design a walking mechanism and propose a variable universe fuzzy control(VUFC)method based on multi‐work c...To address complex work conditions incredibly challenging to the stability of power line inspection robots,we design a walking mechanism and propose a variable universe fuzzy control(VUFC)method based on multi‐work conditions for flying‐walking power line inspection robots(FPLIRs).The contributions of this paper are as follows:(1)A flexible pressing component is designed to improve the adaptability of the FPLIR to the ground line slope.(2)The influence of multi‐work conditions on the FPLIR's walking stability is quantified using three condition parameters(i.e.,slope,slipping degree and swing angle),and their measurement methods are proposed.(3)The VUFC method based on the condition parameters is proposed to improve the walking stability of the FPLIR.Finally,the effect of the VUFC method on walking stability of the FPLIR is teste.The experimental results show that the maximum climbing angle of the FPLIR reaches 29.1°.Compared with the constant pressing force of 30 N,the average value of slipping degree is 0.93°,increasing by 35%.The maximum and average values of robot's swing angle are reduced by 46%and 54%,respectively.By comparing with fuzzy control,the VUFC can provide a more reasonable pressing force while maintaining the walking stability of the FPLIR.The proposed walking mechanism and the VUFC method significantly improve the stability of the FPLIR,providing a reference for structural designs and stability controls of inspection robots.展开更多
Traditional inspection cameras determine targets and detect defects by capturing images of their light intensity,but in complex environments,the accuracy of inspection may decrease.Information based on polarization of...Traditional inspection cameras determine targets and detect defects by capturing images of their light intensity,but in complex environments,the accuracy of inspection may decrease.Information based on polarization of light can characterize various features of a material,such as the roughness,texture,and refractive index,thus improving classification and recognition of targets.This paper uses a method based on noise template threshold matching to denoise and preprocess polarized images.It also reports on design of an image fusion algorithm,based on NSCT transform,to fuse light intensity images and polarized images.The results show that the fused image improves both subjective and objective evaluation indicators,relative to the source image,and can better preserve edge information and help to improve the accuracy of target recognition.This study provides a reference for the comprehensive application of multi-dimensional optical information in power inspection.展开更多
Aiming at the problems of traditional centralized cloud computing which occupies large computing resources and creates high latency,this paper proposes a fault detection scheme for insulator self-explosion based on ed...Aiming at the problems of traditional centralized cloud computing which occupies large computing resources and creates high latency,this paper proposes a fault detection scheme for insulator self-explosion based on edge computing and DL(deep learning).In order to solve the high amount of computation brought by the deep neural network and meet the limited computing resources at the edge,a lightweight SSD(Single Shot MultiBox Detector)target recognition network is designed at the edge,which adopts the MobileNets network to replace VGG16 network in the original model to reduce redundant computing.In the cloud,three detection algorithms(Faster-RCNN,Retinanet,YOLOv3)with obvious differences in detection performance are selected to obtain the coordinates and confidence of the insulator self-explosion area,and then the self-explosion fault detection of the overhead transmission line is realized by a novel multimodel fusion algorithm.The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce the amount of uploaded data,and the average recognition accuracy of the cloud is 95.75%.In addition,it only increases the power consumption of edge devices by about 25.6W/h in their working state.Compared with the existing online monitoring technology of insulator selfexplosion at home and abroad,the proposed scheme has the advantages of low transmission delay,low communication cost and high diagnostic accuracy,which provides a new idea for online monitoring research of power internet of things equipment.展开更多
文摘The country strongly supports the development of new energy industries,with the clean energy wind power industry developing rapidly and the market maturing,the scale of wind farms and installed capaci-ty expanding,and the blade length increasing to 60-70m.The increased blade length and weight increase the probability of damage.the manual inspection method is time-consuming and laborious,with a high economic cost,low inspection efficiency,and high safety risks,and cannot meet the current wind turbine fast and efficient inspection requirements.This paper introduces the characteristics of the type of UAV,its working status,and mode,and proposes how to determine the best area for UAV inspection according to the factors that can cause interference to the inspection in the actual wind field,to achieve the demand for fast and efficient inspection of the blade surface and improve the accuracy of inspection.It is believed that with the development of UAV technology,UAVs will play a more important role in the field of inspection.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:62063030,62163032Financial Science and Technology Program of the XPCC,Grant/Award Numbers:2021DB003,2022CB002‐07,2022CB011High‐level Talent Project of Shihezi University,Grant/Award Numbers:RCZK2018C31,RCZK2018C32。
文摘To address complex work conditions incredibly challenging to the stability of power line inspection robots,we design a walking mechanism and propose a variable universe fuzzy control(VUFC)method based on multi‐work conditions for flying‐walking power line inspection robots(FPLIRs).The contributions of this paper are as follows:(1)A flexible pressing component is designed to improve the adaptability of the FPLIR to the ground line slope.(2)The influence of multi‐work conditions on the FPLIR's walking stability is quantified using three condition parameters(i.e.,slope,slipping degree and swing angle),and their measurement methods are proposed.(3)The VUFC method based on the condition parameters is proposed to improve the walking stability of the FPLIR.Finally,the effect of the VUFC method on walking stability of the FPLIR is teste.The experimental results show that the maximum climbing angle of the FPLIR reaches 29.1°.Compared with the constant pressing force of 30 N,the average value of slipping degree is 0.93°,increasing by 35%.The maximum and average values of robot's swing angle are reduced by 46%and 54%,respectively.By comparing with fuzzy control,the VUFC can provide a more reasonable pressing force while maintaining the walking stability of the FPLIR.The proposed walking mechanism and the VUFC method significantly improve the stability of the FPLIR,providing a reference for structural designs and stability controls of inspection robots.
基金supported by the project“Research on enhancement and recognition technology of industrial video in power grid production under all-weather environment based on multi-dimensional optical feature fusion and pulse calculation(5700-202325308A-1-1-ZN)”of the State Grid Corporation of China.
文摘Traditional inspection cameras determine targets and detect defects by capturing images of their light intensity,but in complex environments,the accuracy of inspection may decrease.Information based on polarization of light can characterize various features of a material,such as the roughness,texture,and refractive index,thus improving classification and recognition of targets.This paper uses a method based on noise template threshold matching to denoise and preprocess polarized images.It also reports on design of an image fusion algorithm,based on NSCT transform,to fuse light intensity images and polarized images.The results show that the fused image improves both subjective and objective evaluation indicators,relative to the source image,and can better preserve edge information and help to improve the accuracy of target recognition.This study provides a reference for the comprehensive application of multi-dimensional optical information in power inspection.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(52167008)Outstanding Youth Fund Project of Jiangxi Natural Science Foundation(20202ACBL214021)+1 种基金Key Research and Development Plan of Jiangxi Province(20202BBGL73098)Science and Technology Project of Education Department of Jiangxi Province(GJJ210650)。
文摘Aiming at the problems of traditional centralized cloud computing which occupies large computing resources and creates high latency,this paper proposes a fault detection scheme for insulator self-explosion based on edge computing and DL(deep learning).In order to solve the high amount of computation brought by the deep neural network and meet the limited computing resources at the edge,a lightweight SSD(Single Shot MultiBox Detector)target recognition network is designed at the edge,which adopts the MobileNets network to replace VGG16 network in the original model to reduce redundant computing.In the cloud,three detection algorithms(Faster-RCNN,Retinanet,YOLOv3)with obvious differences in detection performance are selected to obtain the coordinates and confidence of the insulator self-explosion area,and then the self-explosion fault detection of the overhead transmission line is realized by a novel multimodel fusion algorithm.The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can effectively reduce the amount of uploaded data,and the average recognition accuracy of the cloud is 95.75%.In addition,it only increases the power consumption of edge devices by about 25.6W/h in their working state.Compared with the existing online monitoring technology of insulator selfexplosion at home and abroad,the proposed scheme has the advantages of low transmission delay,low communication cost and high diagnostic accuracy,which provides a new idea for online monitoring research of power internet of things equipment.