INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE
General definition:
AI is the branch of computer science that
is concerned with the automation of
intelligent behavior.
OR SIMPLY

AI is the science of automating intelligent

behaviors currently achievable by humans
only.

APPLICATIONS OF AI

Power plants

Hospitals and medicine

Heavy industry

Transportation

Toys and games

Aviation etc

A.I IN POWER STATIONS

THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF MAJOR POWER PLANTS KNOWN FOR THE MASSIVE
ELECTICITY GENARATION

1.

THERMAL POWER PLANTS

2.

HYDAL POWER PLANTS

3.

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN
THERMAL POWER PLANTS

Mobile monitoring of
power system

The mobile monitoring of power system means the controlling and

maintenance of the plant by various automated means from a safe distance.

To solve this task,

multidisciplinary efforts are needed from fields such as sensing,
signal processing, control, communications, optimization theory,
and, more recently, robotics.

The developments in robotic maintenance for power systems

indicate significant potential of this technological approach.

The mobile monitoring of the power plant includes various sensors like
Acoustic sensing, Fringing electric field sensing, and infrared sensing

Advantages of robots in power system

maintenance
Replacing human workers for dangerous and highly
specialized
operations, such as live maintenance of high-voltage
transmission
lines, has been a long-standing effort in the power
community.
Line scout

Specifications of line scout robot

The three-axis robotic arm has been
designed to reach the four conductors of
a
typical transmission line . One end of the
arm is equipped with
a point able camera and the other can
hold a variety of tools for tasks such as:
>> High quality visual inspection
>> Infrared inspection
>> Checking the condition of splices by
measuring their electrical resistance
>> Tightening and loosening bolted
assemblies
>> Temporary repair of broken
conductor strands

Applications of Robots in
nuclear power plants

Other needs of robotics in power systems include

operation in hazardous environments, such as

radioactive locations in nuclear
plants, access to tight spaces, such as cable viaducts and cooling pipes, and precise
positioning of measurement equipment.

Therefore, one may expect that the mobile sensing will play an increasingly
important role in the monitoring of power systems.

Snake-arm robot
.

The Snake-arm can perform a variety of

inspection and maintenance tasks

Applications of the snake-arm

robot
I.
II.

III.

Snake-arm robot aims to "reach the

unreachable
Nuclear industry has used the
equipment for maintenance and
inspections
Robot could be used for open
orifice surgery in the future

Navigating through confined spaces.

A Snake-arm is performing maintenance at a nuclear power

plant in Sweden.