How Two IITGN Engineers Built a Robot to Inspect India’s Ageing Power Lines.
STORY CREDITSWriter: Manasasri MuralidharanPhoto: Arijit Reeves Undergraduate students from IIT Gandhinagar’s Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing a low-cost solution for one of India’s most critical infrastructure challenges. For most of us, the humming overhead wires that power our cities are invisible until they fail. But for power distribution companies, they represent a massive logistical nightmare. In a country with over 5 lakh kilometres of overhead power lines, maintaining the grid is a high-stakes, high-cost endeavour. Current inspection methods are fraught with danger and expense. Human workers risk their lives scaling towers, while industrial drones are costly and suffer from limited...
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