Abstract
As the biggest country in power consumption and generation, China owns the largest scale of transmission line worldwide. The application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in inspection has been carried out for many years in China because of its strong adaptability and safety compared to the traditional manual way. For the further development of UAV application technology in transmission line inspection, China has accumulated rich experiences and greatly improved line inspection efficiency and formed a relatively complete UAV transmission line inspection standardization system including operation safety management, an equipment configuration method, and functional quality requirements. However, there still exist some obstacles that need to be tackled due to the fact that China’s UAV transmission line inspection standardization and its international promotion have not been thoroughly and comprehensively studied at present. Based on an in-depth analysis of China’s current UAV transmission line inspection standardization system, this study employs SWOT-PEST analysis to insightfully investigate international promotion opportunities/challenges under the current situation, upon which several constructive suggestions are proposed from four aspects of politics, economy, society, and technology. The ultimate purpose is to design feasible schemes to boost the international promotion of China’s UAV transmission line inspection standardization and further development of international UAV inspection technology.
Highlights
As the traditional method of transmission line inspection (Liu et al, 2019a), manual inspection has some obvious disadvantages (Muniappan, 2021) when it comes to special terrain and meteorological conditions which frequently lead to low inspection efficiency (Padhy and Panda, 2021), and personnel safety is not always guaranteed (Kumar et al, 2021)
This study initially investigates the characteristics of line inspection unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and concludes that different UAV types correspond to different line inspection tasks
Current Status of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Transmission Line Inspection in China From around 2010, China’s electric companies have made achievements in UAV inspection and taken corresponding measures to promote the development of UAV application in line inspection
Summary
As the traditional method of transmission line inspection (Liu et al, 2019a), manual inspection has some obvious disadvantages (Muniappan, 2021) when it comes to special terrain and meteorological conditions which frequently lead to low inspection efficiency (Padhy and Panda, 2021), and personnel safety is not always guaranteed (Kumar et al, 2021). Current Status of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Transmission Line Inspection in China From around 2010, China’s electric companies have made achievements in UAV inspection and taken corresponding measures to promote the development of UAV application in line inspection. Since the training of line inspection UAV operators is not common in the world, for countries with less-developed technology, the cost of training UAV operators will increase This will hinder the promotion of China’s UAV line inspection standards. With the steady development of these two technologies, artificial intelligence will further enhance the intelligent interaction, information processing, analysis, and decision-making capabilities of UAVs, while 5G will improve the communication and data transmission capabilities of UAVs. The two will jointly release more potential power in the international promotion of China’s UAV line inspection standard. How to ensure the security of information and data collected during the analysis is a crucial issue that should be paid attention to
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