Hunan research and development of intelligent live robots to open up a new era of power grid repair

[China Instrument Network Instrument R&D] On January 8, the “Dream Series” electrified maintenance robot researched and developed by the Live Working Center of the Hunan Provincial Power Company of the State Grid of China was officially put into use. This series includes five types of intelligent live working robots such as transmission line inspections, electrified maintenance and UHV zero-value insulator detection, providing a complete chain of operations for the daily overhaul of high-voltage electric wires.

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In China's huge high-voltage wire network, line maintenance is the key task to ensure the security of power supply, and it is also the most costly task of labor costs. The maintenance work of the live line is complicated. Among them, the replacement of insulators, fastening of drainage plates, and replacement of shockproof hammers are the most common. When working manually, the maintenance worker usually wears heavy shielding clothes, carries various equipment tools, climbs towers, and stays at high altitude for a few hours, with high safety risks and low operating efficiency. If it is in bad weather Or geographical conditions, the difficulty of the job is even more unimaginable.

The emergence of smart charged robots will change this situation. Such as patrol robot, its operating radius of 50 kilometers, equivalent to 3 can easily complete the workload of maintenance personnel, and to double the efficiency of the work; transmission lines over the mountains, many places hard to reach artificial forces, and live working robot It can be "stationed" for a long time in an extremely geographical environment. In addition, through the high-definition monitoring and infrared detection equipment provided by the robot, maintenance personnel can sit back in front of the computer and perform line inspections and maintenance scheduling work in the office.

(Original title: Live-on-demand robots "up to posts" Power grid overhaul to the smart age)