Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs
The power grid is an essential infrastructure in any country, comprising thousands of kilometers of power lines that require periodic inspection and maintenance, carried out nowadays by human operators in risky conditions. To increase safety and reduce time and cost with respect to conventional solu...
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| author | Jonathan Cacace Santos M. Orozco-Soto Alejandro Suarez Alvaro Caballero Matko Orsag Stjepan Bogdan Goran Vasiljevic Emad Ebeid Jose Alberto Acosta Rodriguez Anibal Ollero |
| author_facet | Jonathan Cacace Santos M. Orozco-Soto Alejandro Suarez Alvaro Caballero Matko Orsag Stjepan Bogdan Goran Vasiljevic Emad Ebeid Jose Alberto Acosta Rodriguez Anibal Ollero |
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| description | The power grid is an essential infrastructure in any country, comprising thousands of kilometers of power lines that require periodic inspection and maintenance, carried out nowadays by human operators in risky conditions. To increase safety and reduce time and cost with respect to conventional solutions involving manned helicopters and heavy vehicles, the AERIAL-CORE project proposes the development of aerial robots capable of performing aerial manipulation operations to assist human operators in power lines inspection and maintenance, allowing the installation of devices, such as bird flight diverters or electrical spacers, and the fast delivery and retrieval of tools. This manuscript describes the goals and functionalities to be developed for safe local aerial manipulation, presenting the preliminary designs and experimental results obtained in the first year of the project. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eaec217f700940a6aab1389ebd2fa8862023-11-22T02:35:39ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-07-011113622010.3390/app11136220Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and DesignsJonathan Cacace0Santos M. Orozco-Soto1Alejandro Suarez2Alvaro Caballero3Matko Orsag4Stjepan Bogdan5Goran Vasiljevic6Emad Ebeid7Jose Alberto Acosta Rodriguez8Anibal Ollero9Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, ItalyCREATE Consortium, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, ItalyGRVC Robotics Labs, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, SpainGRVC Robotics Labs, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, SpainDepartment of Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaDepartment of Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaDepartment of Control and Computer Engineering, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, CroatiaSDU UAS Center, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, DenmarkE-distribución, 41007 Sevilla, SpainGRVC Robotics Labs, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, SpainThe power grid is an essential infrastructure in any country, comprising thousands of kilometers of power lines that require periodic inspection and maintenance, carried out nowadays by human operators in risky conditions. To increase safety and reduce time and cost with respect to conventional solutions involving manned helicopters and heavy vehicles, the AERIAL-CORE project proposes the development of aerial robots capable of performing aerial manipulation operations to assist human operators in power lines inspection and maintenance, allowing the installation of devices, such as bird flight diverters or electrical spacers, and the fast delivery and retrieval of tools. This manuscript describes the goals and functionalities to be developed for safe local aerial manipulation, presenting the preliminary designs and experimental results obtained in the first year of the project.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/13/6220aerial manipulationinspection and maintenancepower lines |
| spellingShingle | Jonathan Cacace Santos M. Orozco-Soto Alejandro Suarez Alvaro Caballero Matko Orsag Stjepan Bogdan Goran Vasiljevic Emad Ebeid Jose Alberto Acosta Rodriguez Anibal Ollero Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs Applied Sciences aerial manipulation inspection and maintenance power lines |
| title | Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs |
| title_full | Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs |
| title_fullStr | Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs |
| title_short | Safe Local Aerial Manipulation for the Installation of Devices on Power Lines: AERIAL-CORE First Year Results and Designs |
| title_sort | safe local aerial manipulation for the installation of devices on power lines aerial core first year results and designs |
| topic | aerial manipulation inspection and maintenance power lines |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/13/6220 |
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