Top Inspection and Monitoring of HV Power Line Towers Damage by UAV

This paper presents some results of an automated top inspection for power lines damages with focus of insulators. To support top inspection with load power line researchers applied image processing methods based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The top inspection with UAV has many advantages as well as several limitations. This research comes up based on request from power distribution company from Mongolia due to the high number of damages in insulators and interruption of power distribution through the country. Research team from Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Ulaanbaatar together with research team from Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz work on this project since 2016. Aim of this paper is to share some results of ongoing project, and collect feedback on our general methods and used devices from experts.