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This research proposes positioning obstacle detection sensors by multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) dedicated to detailed inspections in high voltage towers. Different obstacle detection sensors are analyzed to compose a multisensory architecture in a multirotor UAV. The representation of the beam pattern of the sensors is modeled in the CoppeliaSim simulator to analyze the sensors’ coverage and detection performance in simulation. A multirotor UAV is designed to carry the same sensor architecture modeled in the simulation. The aircraft is used to perform flights over a deactivated electrical tower, aiming to evaluate the detection performance of the sensory architecture embedded in the aircraft. The results obtained in the simulation were compared with those obtained in a real scenario of electrical inspections. The proposed method achieved its goals as a mechanism to early evaluate the detection capability of different previously characterized sensor architectures used in multirotor UAV for electrical inspections.
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The authors are grateful to the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, Portugal) for financial support through national funds FCT/MCTES (PIDDAC) to CeDRI (UIDB/05757/2020 and UIDP/05757/2020), SusTEC (LA/P/0007/2021), Oleachain “Skills for sustainability and innovation in the value chain of traditional olive groves in the Northern Interior of Portugal” (Norte06-3559-FSE-000188) and Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca (CEFET/RJ). The project that gave rise to these results received the support of a fellowship from “la Caixa” Foundation (ID 100010434). The fellowship code is LCF/BQ/DI20/11780028.
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Berger, G.S. et al. (2022). Sensor Architecture Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Dedicated to Electrical Tower Inspections. In: Pereira, A.I., Košir, A., Fernandes, F.P., Pacheco, M.F., Teixeira, J.P., Lopes, R.P. (eds) Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications. OL2A 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1754. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23236-7_3
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