In order to reduce the serious influence the insulator string breakage force on the transmission line operation
and to improve the level of line operation maintenance
a kind of damage detection method for the suspension insulator string mixed with difference method and curve fitting is proposed in this paper. Single frame image intercepted from the insulator string video stream is used as the research object
though the canny operator to extract the edge of the insulator string
and the extracted edge into smooth and standard curve is fitted by fitting method
then the difference of the extracted edge and the fitted standard curve is computed through the differential value to judge whether the insulator is in good condition. Simulation results show that this method has a faster running speed than the traditional insulator string broken detection method which is based on the background difference
and can accurately locate the breakage of insulator string.