Abstract:Ice disaster seriously affects the safe operation of transmission lines and causes huge economic losses. When the icing occurs, the position of the lowest sag of transmission line may change, and the length of the wire borne by tower tension sensor varies accordingly. An estimation method for icing thickness of transmission lines based on time series iteration method is proposed. The equivalent thickness and density of icing and line are calculated by several iterations to reduce the influence of the changes of the position of the lowest sag on the icing thickness measurement. The accuracy and scientificity of the proposed estimation method are verified in four simulation experiment scenarios, in which the length of the subjected wire continues to increase, firstly increases and then decreases, continuously decreases, and firstly decreases and then increases.