Cooperative Transmission Tower Inspection with a Vehicle and a UAV in Urban Areas

To reduce the workload of inspectors and improve the inspection efficiency of urban transmission towers, a new inspection method is proposed in this paper, in which an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and vehicle cooperate with each other. We investigate the cooperative path planning problem of a UAV a...

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Main Authors: Ju Wang, Guoqiang Wang, Xiaoxuan Hu, He Luo, Haiqing Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-01-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/2/326