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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Energies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/2/326 |
| Summary: | 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 and a vehicle for transmission tower inspection and develop a new 0−1 integer programming model to address the problem. An odd-even layered genetic algorithm (O-ELGA) is proposed to efficiently solve the model. Finally, the effectiveness of the algorithm is further verified by simulation experiments. |
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| ISSN: | 1996-1073 |