Real-Time Automatic Route Generation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Based Patrol Inspection in Power Distribution System

The power distribution network plays an important role in the distribution of electric energy in the power network. As the distribution network has a wide distribution range and long lines, the areas it passes through are mainly suburban and rural areas, and it is unlikely to pass through very remote mountains and land nobody live, so its current patrol inspection work is mainly realized manually. With the gradual maturity of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technique, patrol inspection can not only be realized by UAVs in power transmission network, but power distribution network as well. Due to the complexity of the upper circuit of the power distribution network, the current UAV patrol inspection is mainly based on manual flight, which cannot realize the automatic route generation. At present, there are few researches on real-time automatic route generation for UAV for the purpose of patrol inspection of power distribution network. Therefore, in this paper, a real-time route generation method for UAV has been proposed, which can be applied to the regular patrol inspection of power distribution network based on UAV.