🏴 You’ve heard of R2-D2, C-3PO and the Curiosity rover – but have you heard of the robot named after Scotland’s national dish?
🏫 ‘Haggis’ was named in a competition involving school pupils in Keith, who welcomed the robot to their school along with some of our staff. During the visits pupils were given the chance to operate Haggis and find out more about its activities.
⚡️ Currently deployed at SSEN Transmission’s high-voltage direct current (HVDC) switching station at Blackhillock near the Moray town, Haggis – otherwise known as EXTRM MK4.1 – is designed to monitor equipment between planned outages, reducing the possibility of disruption to the transmission network.
⚙️ Using a series of cameras and sensors including state-of-the-art visual, thermal, and acoustic imaging, the data it collects means staff can make informed decisions in relation to any future maintenance.
⚡️ Our video shows Haggis in action during a trial deployment at Noss Head switching station earlier this year.
➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/e6axdW2YRoss Robotics#autonomousrobots#innovation#Scotland
Today we are in North Head DC switching station, the first VSC multi terminal system in Europe and today we're in North Head for trialling stage one of a robotic innovation project for us to gain a better understanding on what it's innovation for making informed condition based monitoring of our BDC assets, the in high project which is called through the network innovation Elevens, we are working with our project partner Rose Robotics. They are the supplier of the robot and her sisters with the deployment at North Head here today. We're a small robotics company that specialize on producing autonomous inspection robots for high voltage environments. We're at a brand new HVDC switching station that is an SSN facility and we've deployed one of our robots here to perform inspections to make sure that it stays up and running. It's a ground robots, so it's got wheels. It's deployed with a number of different cameras, so we have sort of normal RGB or visual cameras that take very high definition photographs of the equipment. But also thermal imaging as well. So it'll spot equipment that is potentially sort of not functioning properly, that's getting hot and that might be dangerous. It also has environmental sensors on it as well, so it'll measure things like sound, temperature, humidity. So it's helping SEM to build up a complete picture of what's happening within these sorts of critical assets. Having the robot in place means that we can inspect areas of the hall that we otherwise wouldn't be able to inspect HVDC systems. When an operation or inaccessible to humans that so we've taken this opportunity to use the robotics in our environment where we can get hands on experience with the robot before we take the next stage of installing it into our VSC HVDC halls. In normal situations the robot is permanently installed in the in the facility, It lives there for periods of a year to two years. It'll charge itself up and it'll perform a number of inspections each day. If it comes across any readings that are out of the ordinary or anything on the floor that shouldn't be there as an example, it will immediately send an alert to the control centre so that you know, people are informed that there's a potential issue there and they can then take action. The innovation team used these projects to ensure that the network is more reliable. It's a safer network and also we're transitioning to Net Zero. I hope the legacy of this project will be further deployment of robotics and we hope that this robot project will be stage one and helping enhance our understanding and our implementation down the line for future projects.
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