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1. Dual arm electrical transmission line robot: motion through straight and jumper cable.

Author

Shruthi, C. M., Sudheer, A. P., and Joy, M. L.

Subjects
ROBOT motion, ELECTRIC lines, ROBOTS, TELEPRESENCE, BLUE collar workers, HIGH voltages, POWER resources
Abstract

Ground-based high voltage electrical line inspection is one of the difficult and highly dangerous job as far as a manual worker is concerned. The transmission line inspection by robots avoids temporary interruption of power supply that affects the end user and transmission grid. Also, robot-based inspection reduces maintenance cost and hazards. The electrical line inspection is normally carried out using binoculars and rarely by helicopters in most of the countries because of the low cost. Wire traversing or aerial robots are being used in Japan, Canada, USA and Russia for inspecting and monitoring faults in transmission lines and towers. However, most of these robots require a lot of human effort for installation due to its weight and complex design. Cost of these robots is also very high. This paper presents the mechanical design, fabrication and testing of a novel, low cost, light weight and compact power transmission line inspection robot. This work also includes kinematic, static and dynamic analysis of various subsystems of robot. Proposed robot is capable of traversing on straight transmission line and jumper cables present in tension towers. The robot has 10 DoF dual arm for crossing operation and a base system to achieve the locomotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2019
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2. Preface.

Author

Itoh, Kiyoshi, Kumagai, Satoshi, and Hirota, Toyohiko

Subjects
SYSTEMS development, SOFTWARE engineering, COMPUTER-aided design, COMPUTER assisted instruction
Abstract

This article presents a preface to the book Domain Oriented Systems Development: Practices and Perspectives, edited by Kiyoshi Itoh, Satoshi Kumagai and Toyohiko Hirota. The book is the second collection of articles edited by the research group on domain analysis and modeling in Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group of Software Engineering. It mainly includes the extended versions of several presentations by International Workshop participants from Japan, Korea, Canada, and Austria and the qualified papers selected by the research group. It covers the wide range of activities on domain oriented systems development, such as triplex schema of key concepts for domain oriented systems development, feature oriented product line software engineering, software architecture for intelligent computer-aided design, fully independent component architecture, interrelationships between requirements engineering and domain engineering, framework development and evolution, knowledge base development for product configuration systems, domain specific repository and reuse for computer-aided instruction, domain framework based on three-view model, generation of architecture product model.

Published
2002