Technical and Scientific Publications

in conferences, proceedings or journals with peer review. Unless otherwise stated, publications are written in English.

The table on the right summarises the statistics of publications with Albatroz Engineering authors through the years.

Unified Status Evaluation for Reliability Assessment of Over-Head Power Grids

by J. Gomes-Mota

presented at International Conference on Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance - CMDM 2011, September 19-23, 2011, Bucharest, Romania, cmdm2011.org .

2011

Environmental characterization of the Portuguese transmission grid from line inspection data*

by F. Azevedo¹, J. Gomes-Mota², L. Campos Pinto³, J. Casaca³ (Study Committee C3)
¹ CENTRIA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ² Albatroz Engenharia SA, ³ REN - Redes Energéticas Nacionais,

Designing a family of inspection systems from the walking inspector to the manned helicopter**

by J. Gomes-Mota (Study Committee B2)

both presented at XIV ERIAC - 14^th Meeting of the Iberian-American Region of CIGRÉ (XIV Encontro Região Ibero-Americana do CIGRÉ), May 22^nd - 26^th, 2011, Ciudad del Este, Paraguai, xiveriac.cigre.org.py .

* presented in Portuguese under the title "Caracterização Ambiental da rede de transmissão portuguesa a partir de dados de inspecção de linhas".
** presented in Portuguese under the title "Desenhando uma família de sistemas de inspecção de linhas desde o peão até ao helicóptero tripulado".

Read the abstract in English (full paper in Portuguese).

Read the abstract in English (full paper in Portuguese).

Over-Head Line real-time tracking for automatic inspection or user interface enhancement

by João Gomes-Mota, Tiago Gusmão

presented at CARPI 2010 - 2010 1^st International Conference on Applied Robotics For the Power Industry, Montreal, Canada, October 5-6-7, 2010, carpi2010.org .

2010

Multi -Challenges and Benefits of Integrated Over-Head Line Inspections

by Artur Matos André¹, José Matos², João Gomes-Mota^3
1LABELEC SA (EDP group), ²EDP Distribuição (EDP group), ³Albatroz Engenharia SA

presented at CIRED09 - Session 20, paper 0848, Prague, Czech Republic, 8 ^th- 11^thJune 2009.

2009

Challenges and Benefits of Integrated Over-Head Line Inspections

by J. Gomes-Mota, Décio Bento

presented at 2008 CIGRE Canada Conference on Power Systems, 19th-21st October, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 2008.

2008

Geographical Information Tools for Overhead Lines Preventive Maintenance

by J. Gomes-Mota¹, Miguel Ramos¹, A. Matos-André ^2
1Albatroz Engineering ²LABELEC (EDP Group)

presented at CIGRÉ08 - Session 42 (Study Comittee B2)
Paris, France, 25^th- 29^th August 2008.

Prototipo para la Monitorización de la Infraestructura Ferroviaria utilizando Sensores Lidar, Imagen de Video y GPS: Primeros Resultados

by F. Goméz Bravo, A. Vale, J. Gomes-Mota

presented at XXVIII Jornadas de Automática of Universidad de Huelva, Spain, September 5^th-7^th, 2007. The seminar was organized by the Escuela Politécnica Superior and the Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Automática.

Paper in Spanish, published in the proceedings of the XXVIII Jornadas de Automática. ISBN: 978-84-690-749-8.

2007

Integração, Flexibilidade e Tempo Real: Critérios Críticos no Desenho de uma Solução de Inspecção de Linhas*

by João Gomes Mota, Carlos Silva

* Integration, Flexibility and Real-Time: critical design criteria for the design of an over-head line inspection solution

presented at XII ERIAC, 12^th Meeting of the Iberian-American Region of CIGRÉ (XII Encontro Região Ibero-Americana do CIGRÉ), May 20^th - 24^th, 2007, Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil

LIDAR Data Segmentation for Track Clearance Anomaly Detection on Over-Head Power Lines

by Alberto Vale, João Gomes Mota

published on DECOM2007, IFAC Workshop Technology Transfer in Developing Countries: Automation in Infrastructure Creation - TT May 17 - 18, 2007, Ýzmir, Turkey.

Detection and Classification of Clearance Anomalies on Over-Head Power Lines

by Alberto Vale, João Gomes Mota

published on CONTROLO2006, the 7th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Lisbon, 11-13 September 2006.

Note: CONTROLO is a biannual meeting organised by APCA - Associação Portuguesa de Controlo Automático, Portugal's national member of IFAC.

2006

Taking Accurate Measurements of High Voltage Installations with Laser Range Scanners and GPS

by J. Gomes-Mota¹, A. Vale², A. Matos-André¹, M. I. Ribeiro^2
1LABELEC/EDP Group, ²Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica/Instituto Superior Técnico

presented at CIGRÉ06 - Session 41 (Study Comittee B2) Paris, France, 28^th August-1^st September 2006.

Notes:

1. This paper reports the initial R&D project that eventually led to the current Power Line Maintenance Inspection.
2. Albatroz Engineering was also present at the Technical Exhibition of CIGRÉ06.