Abstract
To meet the electricity demand, the power grid needs to be extended and improved due to increasing global energy requirement, population growth, access to better living standards, and increasing industrial output. To ensure an efficient & uninterrupted power supply proper maintenance and operations of overhead power transmission lines are required. This manuscript outlines the development and fabrication of an autonomous quadcopter for the application of overhead power line inspection. It can hover in denied environments with advanced components and sensors like Global Positioning System (GPS), Hex HereFlow, and motion capture cameras to localize itself or attain self-stability/altitude lock. The process of fabricating the quadcopter includes the usage of low-cost frame and electronic components with the best quality. Following preset criteria, an S500 frame was modified as a quadcopter with a smart controller like Pixhawk 2.1 orange cube with Here2 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), an NVIDIA Nano TK1 developer board and FLIR Vue Pro thermal camera for localization and processing the data from onboard sensors and cameras.
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