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.

2014

Predictive Modelling of Overhead Lines Reliability and Lifetime

by N. Pinho da Silva¹, J. Casaca², L. Campos-Pinto², F. Azevedo ³, J. Gomes-Mota¹

¹ Albatroz Engenharia, ³ REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional, ³ CENTRIA-FCT-Universidade Nova de Lisboa

to be presented at Session 45 of CIGRÉ, 25-29 August, Paris, France, www.cigre2014.org. This contribution follows the CIGRÉ Belgium paper presented in March 2014.

Sharing the transmission grid with storks and other birds

por J. Gomes-Mota¹, F. Azevedo², L. Campos Pinto³, N. Pinho da Silva¹, J. Casaca³

¹ Albatroz Engenharia, ² CENTRIA-FCT-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ³ REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional

a apresentar na Sessão 45 da CIGRÉ, 25-29 Agosto, Paris, França, www.cigre2014.org.

Risk based maintenance and lifetime management of overhead lines

by N. Pinho da Silva¹, J. Casaca², F. Azevedo ³, J. Gomes-Mota¹, L. Campos-Pinto¹

¹ Albatroz Engineering, ² REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional, ³ CENTRIA-FCT-Universidade Nova de Lisboa

presented at CIGRE Belgium 2014 Conference on Innovation for Secure and Efficient Transmission Grids , March 12^thth-14^th March, Brussels, Belgium.

Advances in Vegetation Management to improve Reliability

by J. Gomes-Mota, F. Azevedo¹, J. Casaca ², V. Almeida, N. Pinho da Silva, L. Campos Pinto^2
1 CENTRIA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ² REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional

presented at CIGRÉ International Conference on Condition Monitoring, Diagnosis and Maintenance - CMDM 2013 (Study Committee B2), 2-5 September, Bucharest, Romania, cmdm2013.org.

2013

Automatic detection of stork nests on VHV towers

by João Fernandes¹, Maria Paula Queluz¹, Tomás Brandão², Francisco Azevedo³, João Gomes Mota^3
1IT/IST/Technical University Lisbon, ²IT/ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, ³Albatroz Engineering, Lisbon

presented at ConfTELE 2013, Castelo Branco, Portugal, May 8-10, 2013.

OHL Assessment and Risk Evaluation Based on Environmental and Inspection Data

by F. Azevedo¹, J. Gomes-Mota, L. Campos Pinto², N. Machado², S.A.B. de Almeida de Graaff^3
1 CENTRIA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ² REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional , ³ TenneT TSO B.V.

presented at 2012 CIGRÉ Canada Conference, Montréal, Canada, September 24-26, 2012, cigre-canada.org , cigre.ca.

2012

Long term assessment of critical factors affecting the reliability of transmission grids

by J. Gomes-Mota¹, F. Azevedo², L. Campos Pinto³, J. Casaca ^3
1 Albatroz Engenharia, ² CENTRIA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ³ REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional

presented at 12th IAEE European Energy Conference, September 9-12, 2012, Venice, Italy, iaee.org, iaeeu2021.it.

How environment factors impact line performance - Field results from Southwest Europe

by J. Gomes-Mota, Ana Brantes, Luís Campos Pinto¹, Francisco Azevedo^2
1 REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional, ² CENTRIA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa

presented at International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering 2012, EEEIC2012, May 18-24, 2012, Venice, Italy, eeeic.eu .

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

Electrical grid modelling for overhead maintenance cycle optimisation

by Francisco Azevedo¹, João Gomes-Mota²

¹ CENTRIA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, ² Albatroz Engenharia SA

in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Constraint Reasoning and Graphical Structures (CRaGS 2010), Tarik Hadzic and Radu Marinescu (Editors) pages 75-82 (presented by Franscisco Azevedo in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK).

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.