Analysis Of A Line Follower System For Hotspot Detection From Substation End

ABSTRACT

This write up describes the development of a line follower system for the detection of hotspots inside a power substation. It uses an infrared camera connected to the follower which moves along the substation via a steel cable inside the substation. The prototype follower is remotely controlled by a wireless Bluetooth system. The camera is dynamically directed to different substations components through a pan tilt system. The whole structure is controlled by a microcontroller software using Arduino Nano. The line follower is located at some distance away from the control room. Aside from controlling the robot pan-tilt movements, the software also performs the data acquisition and analysis of the monographic arrays thus detecting the referred hotspots