Advanced Teleoperated System for Live Power Line Maintenance

Abstract The teleoperated system ROBTET described in this paper, has been applied to live-line maintenance tasks since 1999. Manual outage-free maintenance of power lines suffer from potential hazards of electric shocks and falls from the working place during the task execution. Some of the technologies involved are: stereoscopic vision, voice commanded recognition, and virtual force reflection. They have been integrated in order to obtain a teleoperated system which is able to perform common live-line maintenance procedures. The advantages obtained by the ROBTET system in this field and experiences about operators' training are described in this paper.

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