Technology and Application for Substation Automatic Inspection Based on “Robot +” Mode

Abstract Daily substation equipment inspection is important for safety production of the power grid. To improve the safety and reliability of the traditional substation instrument inspection mode, this paper aims on the technology and application for substation automatic inspection based on “robot +" mode. Upon the foundation of substation inspect robot, we expand the cover range and types of monitoring devices. We first introduce the system architecture and inspect data type of the proposed “robot+” mode, and then show the data access architecture of all the monitoring devices related to the system. The processing strategies for two typical kinds of structured and unstructured data which are not from the robot are explained. For structured data, we adopt the ARIMA model to predict the time series data. Meanwhile for unstructured data, we take advantage the concept of sparse representation to recover the deformation of the monitoring object. With the newly automatic inspection mode, we can achieve an all-round three-dimensional inspection of substation equipment and environment, which can improve the coverage, the quality and efficiency of substation operation and maintenance. Through the work of this paper, we can reduce the working pressure of team members and enhance the condition control and operation inspection management penetration of substation equipment.