Distributed Drones for Power Line Inspection with Weighted Consensus Control in Dynamic Network Systems

This paper introduces a weighted consensus control for multi-drone system for power line inspection in a dynamic networked computing environment. The system achieves global load balancing by transferring data with neighbor drones. Algorithms are introduced and their robustness properties against system dynamics are established. Examples and case studies demonstrate the feasibility in power line fault detection applications using multi-drone systems.

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