Katrina SGER: Robotic Assessment of Incipient Faults in Underground Cable Systems

Katrina SGER：地下电缆系统初期故障的机器人评估

• 批准号: 0553996
• 负责人: Alexander Mamishev
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-01-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0553996&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Katrina; SGER; Robotic; Assessment; Incipient

This proposal is being submitted in response to the ECS Division SGER call for proposals of September 9, 2005. The project is dedicated to estimation of incipient faults in power systems using autonomous robots and sensor networks and therefore falls under the categories 1.a) Electric Power Systems, Incipient Fault Detection, and 4.a) Robotics and Sensor Networks, Autonomous Damage Assessment.In the proposed project, a group of researchers will fly to New Orleans and will deploy a robot designed for assessment of health status of underground power cables. The robot can operate in autonomous as well as in supervised mode. The robot carries several types of sensors, which allow detection of incipient faults.This project is original and innovative in many ways. For the first time, a robotic platform will be used to provide damage assessment of electric power cables in-situ after adverse environmental conditions. Also, for the first time, the data collected along the length of the cable will be used to correlate cable condition assessed from terminal measurements.Intellectual merit. The proposed approach will make more realistic the vision of multi-robot systems that patrol distributed infrastructures, ensuring their safety and reliability. The post-flood status of the electric power cable system in New Orleans will be difficult to evaluate. No matter what remedial actions are taken after the disaster, the rebuilding of infrastructure will pose many questions regarding replacement of components, longevity of new components, and salvaging of already installed base. The proposed project will add knowledge to the mosaic of damage assessment conducted with both traditional and highly innovative methods. Answering the questions of what causes cable failures and at which rate has become particularly important for the New Orleans case. The proposed project will not only help answering these questions, but also will help determining the future design approaches for power industry. Broader impact. The PI will use this project as a vehicle to demonstrate technology challenges and solutions in an undergraduate course (EE 401, Engineering Creativity and Innovation), in the graduate seminar (EE 500V, Energy Seminar), and in a K-12 robotics program that PI is supporting with Roosevelt High School in Seattle. The results of this project will form a fascinating story of the behavior of distributed infrastructure under adverse environmental conditions and will serve as a great example for the enhancement of engineering profession. The interdisciplinary efforts of civil, environmental, electrical, and mechanical engineers will be clearly presented to technical and to general audiences. It is worth noting that poster presenting the concept and preliminary results of the proposed approach took first place in International Student Poster Contest in the IEEE General Meeting 2005, San Francisco. The overall audience reaction was that if the proposed approach is highly promising and requires additional field studies at critical areas.

该提案是为响应ECS部门2005年9月9日的SGER提案征集而提交的。该项目致力于使用自主机器人和传感器网络对电力系统的早期故障进行估计，因此属于第1类。a)电力系统，早期故障检测；a)机器人和传感器网络，自主损伤评估。在拟议的项目中，一组研究人员将飞往新奥尔良，部署一个专门用于评估地下电缆健康状况的机器人。机器人可以在自主和监督模式下操作。机器人携带了几种类型的传感器，可以检测早期故障。这个项目在很多方面都是原创和创新的。机器人平台将首次用于在恶劣环境条件下对电力电缆进行现场损伤评估。此外，沿着电缆长度收集的数据将首次用于从终端测量中评估电缆状况。知识价值。所提出的方法将使多机器人系统巡逻分布式基础设施的愿景更加现实，确保其安全性和可靠性。灾后新奥尔良电力电缆系统的状态将难以评估。无论灾后采取何种补救措施，基础设施的重建都将带来许多问题，如部件的更换、新部件的使用寿命以及已安装基础的回收。拟议的项目将为使用传统和高度创新的方法进行的损害评估增加知识。对于新奥尔良事件来说，回答电缆故障的原因和频率问题变得尤为重要。该项目不仅有助于回答这些问题，还将有助于确定电力工业未来的设计方法。更广泛的影响。PI将以该项目为载体，在本科课程（EE 401，工程创意与创新）、研究生研讨会（EE 500V，能源研讨会）以及PI与西雅图罗斯福高中合作的K-12机器人项目中展示技术挑战和解决方案。该项目的结果将形成一个引人入胜的故事，分布式基础设施在不利环境条件下的行为，并将作为一个很好的例子，为提高工程专业。土木，环境，电气和机械工程师的跨学科努力将清楚地呈现给技术和一般观众。值得注意的是，在2005年旧金山IEEE大会的国际学生海报竞赛中，展示该方法的概念和初步结果的海报获得了第一名。听众的总体反应是，如果提议的方法非常有希望，需要在关键领域进行额外的实地研究。