Summary

With the rapid expansion of power grids, transmission lines increasingly operate in complex geographic and climatic conditions, raising demands for intelligent inspection and digital management. Traditional manual inspection methods may face limitations in efficiency and accuracy, particularly in large-scale networks or areas with complex terrain and limited accessibility.

This study utilizes ground-based LiDAR to collect high-resolution point cloud data and establishes a unified annotation system covering 11 object classes. The dataset is preprocessed through sampling, augmentation, normalization, and class balancing. An improved

PointTransformer model is proposed with enhanced feature encoding and spatial awareness to improve classification accuracy and efficiency.

To evaluate model performance, a manually annotated benchmark dataset was established as ground truth, and the model predictions were quantitatively compared with reference labels.

Based on classification results, key components such as towers and conductors are reconstructed using reverse modeling and a model reuse algorithm, enabling asset-to-model mapping and real-time digital representation.

Experiments on 300 GB of data show over 90% overall accuracy, with 99.1% accuracy for conductors. The model demonstrates strong generalization across 330 – 1100 kV scenarios, providing effective support for intelligent monitoring and digital management of transmission lines..

Additional informations

Publication type Session Materials
Reference B2_12505_2026
Publication year
Publisher CIGRE
Country China, People's Republic of
Study committees
File size 2 MB
Price for non member 30 €
Price for member 30 €

Authors

LAI Xiwen - State Grid Beijing Electric Power Research Institute; QI Weiqiang - State Grid Beijing Electric Power Research Institute; ZHANG Ruizhe - State Grid Beijing Electric Power Research Institute; ZHOU Kai - State Grid Beijing Electric Power Research Institute; ZHAO Liuxue - State Grid Beijing Electric Power Research Institute; ZHANG Pei - State Grid Beijing Electric Power Research Institute

Keywords

Transmission line; LiDAR point cloud; PointNet++; Point cloud classification; 3D modeling; Intelligent inspection

Research on 3D point cloud modeling and evaluation technology for transmission lines and corridor environments