Detection and autonomous landing of insulators by light and small UAV based on deep learning

  • Guoqi Zeng*
  • , Junyi Ma
  • , Guida Wang
  • , Pengyu Liu
  • , Huanyin Yue
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper proposes and verifies a design for autonomous identification, positioning and landing of insulators on transmission lines by light and small UAVs based on deep learning. First, the improved YOLOV3 algorithm is used to identify the insulator string target.And the image augmentation technology is used to improve the recognition accuracy of the algorithm model in multiple environments. Designing an adaptive frame extraction algorithm ensures that the model can be run in real time to detect targets under limited equipment resources. We use the insulator string detection output box to calculate the offset, height and other spatial information, which is used to determine the position and heading of the UAV relative to the insulator string on the horizontal plane. According to the offset of the position and heading, the UAV is dynamically position controlled to realize the automatic landing of the UAV. Through a series of field tests, the proposed improved model algorithm obtains 84.5% MAP (mean average precision), and the actual results of autonomous landing verify the feasibility of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication, ICSIPC 2021
EditorsSiting Chen, Wei Qin
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510645400
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event2021 International Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication, ICSIPC 2021 - Chengdu, China
Duration: 16 Apr 202118 Apr 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11848
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference2021 International Conference on Signal Image Processing and Communication, ICSIPC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period16/04/2118/04/21

Keywords

  • Autonomous landing
  • Deep learning
  • Insulators
  • UAV

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