The power line inspection drone is a professional inspection system specifically designed for the intelligent operation and maintenance of power transmission and distribution lines and power facilities. The system mainly consists of three parts: a high-reliability drone flight platform, an airborne inspection payload, and a ground control terminal. It can efficiently complete large-scale line surveys, tower inspections, and channel surveys in complex terrains such as mountainous and forested areas, enabling comprehensive three-dimensional inspection and data collection tasks in challenging scenarios.

This system adopts a modular design, allowing for flexible integration with specialized payloads such as high-definition visible light zoom cameras, infrared thermal imagers, and lidar, comprehensively covering the diverse needs of power grid inspection. Its main application scenarios include: conducting routine autonomous inspections of high-voltage transmission lines to identify equipment defects such as insulator damage, foreign objects in conductors, and hardware corrosion; performing routine inspections of substations and towers, using thermal imaging technology to quickly detect safety hazards such as abnormal equipment overheating and loose connections; and creating 3D models and analyzing tree obstacles in power corridors to accurately measure the distance between lines and the ground and the safe crossing distances, providing data support for line clearing and planning, and significantly improving the automation level and reliability of power grid operation and maintenance.