Research on the AGV Based Robot System Used in Substation Inspection

At the present time, substation equipments are inspected one by one by electric power workers in our country. It not only costs much manpower and material resources, but is also inefficient and insecure. The laser guided AGV based robot system used in substation inspection is a much better choice to solve the above problems. AGV, namely automatic guided vehicle, is a kind of simple mobile robot, which integrates sound, light, electricity and computer. And it is applied in the fields of industry manufacture and logistics widely and maturely. Improving the laser guided AGV in configuration, location, run and control software and so on combined with the requirement of substation operating standard, and then the improved AGV can be used in automatic inspection of substation equipments. The paper introduces the theory and application of laser guided AGV briefly, analyses the feasibility of improving AGV to meet the requirements of field environment and operation standard of substation, and then the design scheme of AGV based robot system used in substation equipment inspection is brought forward. The robot system can replace workers to inspect equipments in substation automatically or remote-controlled, and the operation automation of substation is improved to a new level. Accordingly, the application in substation inspection of the robot system based on laser guided AGV has notable economical benefits and social significance.