Simulation Design of a Live Working Manipulator for Patrol Inspection in Power Grid

The distribution line network is the electric power infrastructure directly facing the users, with the characteristics of large coverage and complex network, and its operation safety is directly related to the stability and reliability of the power supply system, which is the key link to ensure the...

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Main Authors: Tao Xie, Zhengyu Li, Yongyun Zhang, Bin Yuan, Xiao Liu
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Robotics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7318090
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description The distribution line network is the electric power infrastructure directly facing the users, with the characteristics of large coverage and complex network, and its operation safety is directly related to the stability and reliability of the power supply system, which is the key link to ensure the safety of power supply and the reliability of residential electricity consumption. In order to realize the autonomous obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation of the live working manipulator for inspection and maintenance of the power grid equipment, a mobile manipulator intelligent control method combining SumTree-weighted sampling and deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) is proposed. Firstly, the traditional DDPG algorithm is improved to optimize the action value function of Q-learning to get a better control strategy, and the weighted sampling technique is used to add priority to each sample in the replay buffer, which improves the learning speed and accelerates the convergence speed. The corresponding environmental state space is designed, and simulation experiments are conducted to verify the proposed manipulator control method. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than traditional DDPG and DQN methods in obstacle avoidance and navigation tasks, with faster convergence, better path planning ability, and lower offset cost, which can provide theoretical and technical references for realizing fully autonomous power grid inspection operations.
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spelling doaj-art-8310a00451244237be212e9c2b069bb62025-02-03T01:19:59ZengWileyJournal of Robotics1687-96192022-01-01202210.1155/2022/7318090Simulation Design of a Live Working Manipulator for Patrol Inspection in Power GridTao Xie0Zhengyu Li1Yongyun Zhang2Bin Yuan3Xiao Liu4State Grid Shanxi Electric Power CompanyState Grid UHV Transformation Co. of SEPCState Grid UHV Transformation Co. of SEPCState Grid UHV Transformation Co. of SEPCState Grid UHV Transformation Co. of SEPCThe distribution line network is the electric power infrastructure directly facing the users, with the characteristics of large coverage and complex network, and its operation safety is directly related to the stability and reliability of the power supply system, which is the key link to ensure the safety of power supply and the reliability of residential electricity consumption. In order to realize the autonomous obstacle avoidance and autonomous navigation of the live working manipulator for inspection and maintenance of the power grid equipment, a mobile manipulator intelligent control method combining SumTree-weighted sampling and deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) is proposed. Firstly, the traditional DDPG algorithm is improved to optimize the action value function of Q-learning to get a better control strategy, and the weighted sampling technique is used to add priority to each sample in the replay buffer, which improves the learning speed and accelerates the convergence speed. The corresponding environmental state space is designed, and simulation experiments are conducted to verify the proposed manipulator control method. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method performs better than traditional DDPG and DQN methods in obstacle avoidance and navigation tasks, with faster convergence, better path planning ability, and lower offset cost, which can provide theoretical and technical references for realizing fully autonomous power grid inspection operations.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7318090
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