Fault Detecting Robot for Underground Electrical Cables Using ATMEGA Aurdino

Abstract

Nowadays in urban areas electrical cables run underground instead of overhead. A wide variety of faults occur in underground cables due to improper conditions, wear and tear damages. For overcoming these, cables has to be replaced, which will affect the resistance and may leads to voltage breakdown. Therefore robots are designed to help during faulty condition where human interface is difficult. In this paper by implementing robotic features with a underground cable faults distance locator is done by using a microcontroller. The fault occurring at any point is displayed on LCD which is interfaced with the microcontroller that is used to make the necessary calculations. Robotics is considered as the fastest growing field helps human and minimize the gap of the underground cable faults through base station in kilometers and even as future scope robot can advanced with technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning capability.