A Robot Hybrid Hierarchical Network for Sensing Environmental Variables of a Smart Grid

Sensors (Basel). 2020 Sep 26;20(19):5521. doi: 10.3390/s20195521.

Abstract

With the rapid development of the social economy, high-voltage transmission lines as power supply infrastructure are increasing, subsequently presenting a new challenge to the effective monitoring of transmission lines. The dynamic sensor network integrated with robots can effectively solve the elastic monitoring of transmission lines, but the problems of real-time performance, energy consumption and economy of the network need to be solved. To solve this problem, a dynamic network deployment method based on the hybrid hierarchical network (HHN) is proposed to realize a low-cost, energy-saving and real-time dynamic sensing system for overhead high-voltage transmission lines. Through case analysis and simulation, combined with the vague set multi-attribute decision-making method (MADM) with scheme preference, the network deployment and optimization results under multi-parameter constraints are obtained.

Keywords: hybrid hierarchical network; inspection robot; optimized deployment; real-time network; smart grid; transmission line monitoring.