This document summarizes research on insulator condition analysis for overhead distribution lines. It discusses monitoring insulators to assess their condition, extracting features from insulators using wavelet transforms, and analyzing insulator condition using support vector machines. The monitoring process involves feature extraction using wavelet multi-resolution analysis and mother wavelets, followed by condition analysis to obtain condition indices from support vector machines. The research aims to improve power line efficiency and flexibility while allowing for remote insulator monitoring.

1. Insulator Condition Analysis ForInsulator Condition Analysis For
Overhead Distribution LinesOverhead Distribution Lines

2. Overview
• Introduction
• Literature review
• Monitoring process
• Conclusion
• Scope for further studies
• Reference
•Feature extraction of insulators
•Condition analysis of insulators

3. Introduction
Importance of insulator monitoring.
Wellbeing analysis.
Significance of wellbeing analysis.
Steps involved.

4. Monitoring system.

5. Literature review
• V. S. Murthy,Insulator Condition Analysis for Overhead
Distribution Lines,2010.
• V. Vapnik, S. Golowich, and A. Smola. Support vector
method for function approxi-mation, regression
estimation, and signal processing. In M. Mozer, M.
Jordan, andT. Petsche, editors, Advances in Neural
Information Processing Systems 9, pages 281–287,
Cambridge, MA, 1997. MIT Press.

6. Monitoring Process.
• Feature extraction of insulator
• Condition analysis of insulators

7. 1..Feature extraction

8. • Done by using wavelets multi resolution analysis
The wavelet transform is given by…
C – Wavelet transform
a – Wavelet scale
f – Wavelet position
φ – Wavelet function

10. Mother wavelets used..

11. • Impimentation of DWT through sub-band
coding

12. 2..Condition analysis

14. Condition
indices
obtained
from
SVM (I)

16. Conclusion
Advantages:-
• Improves efficiency.
• Gives flexibility.
Disadvantages:-
• Instalation of cameras.
• Can’t account non visual defects.

17. Scope of further study
• Usage of thermal cameras instead.

18. Reference
• C. L. Keyes, D. Shmotkin, C. D. Ryff, “Optimizing well-
being: The empirical encounter of two traditions”, J.
Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 82(6), pp. 1007-
1022, 2002.
• C. C. Whitworth, A. W. G. Duller, D. I. Jones and G.
K. Earp, “Aerial video inspection of power lines",
Power Engineering J., Vol.15(1), pp. 25–32, 2001.
• A. Jain Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing,
Prentice-Hall, 1989.

19. Thank You……