David Pozo

Azat Akhmetyanov, Anastasiia Kornilova, Marsel Faizullin et al.

This paper addresses the problem of building an affordable easy-to-setup synchronized multi-view camera system, which is in demand for many Computer Vision and Robotics applications in high-dynamic environments. In our work, we propose a solution for this problem -- a publicly-available Android application for synchronized video recording on multiple smartphones with sub-millisecond accuracy. We present a generalized mathematical model of timestamping for Android smartphones and prove its applicability on 47 different physical devices. Also, we estimate the time drift parameter for those smartphones, which is less than 1.2 msec per minute for most of the considered devices, that makes smartphones' camera system a worthy analog for professional multi-view systems. Finally, we demonstrate Android-app performance on the camera system built from Android smartphones quantitatively on setup with lights and qualitatively -- on panorama stitching task.

Arman Alahyari, Anton Hinneck, Rahim Tariverdi et al.

Power transmission networks physically connect the power generators to the electric consumers. Such systems extend over hundreds of kilometers. There are many components in the transmission infrastructure that require a proper inspection to guarantee flawless performance and reliable delivery, which, if done manually, can be very costly and time consuming. One essential component is the insulator. Its failure can cause an interruption of the entire transmission line or a widespread power failure. Automated fault detection could significantly decrease inspection time and related costs. Recently, several works have been proposed based on convolutional neural networks, which address the issue mentioned above. However, existing studies focus on a specific type of insulator faults. Thus, in this study, we introduce a two-stage model that segments insulators from their background to then classify their states based on four different categories, namely: healthy, broken, burned/corroded and missing cap. The test results show that the proposed approach can realize the effective segmentation of insulators and achieve high accuracy in detecting several types of faults.

Irina Lukicheva, David Pozo, Alexander Kulikov

Electric power grids are evolving towards intellectualization such as Smart Grids or active-adaptive networks. Intelligent power network implies usage of sensors, smart meters, electronic devices and sophisticated communication network. This leads to a strong dependence on information and communication networking that are prone to threats of cyberattacks, which challenges power system reliability and efficiency. Thus, significant attention should be paid to the Smart Grids security. Recently, it has been proven that False Data Injection Attacks (FDIA) could corrupt results of State Estimation (SE) without noticing, therefore, leading to a possible mis-operation of the whole power system. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm for detecting cyberattacks based on non-linear filtering by using cyber-physical information from Kirchhoff laws. The proposed algorithm only needs data from adjacent nodes, therefore can be locally and distributed implemented. Also, it requires very low computational effort so that it can be run online, and it is suitable for implementation in existing or new ad-hoc low-cost devices. The proposed algorithm could be helpful to increase power system awareness against FDIA complementing the current SE implementations. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm has been proved by mathematical simulations and computer modeling in PSCAD software. Our results show that the proposed methodology can detect cyberattacks to the SE in 99.9% of the cases with very little false alarms on the identification of spoiled measurements (4.6%).