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Abstract
Despite recent technological advances for Photovoltaic panels maintenance (Electroluminescence imaging, drone inspection), only few large-scale studies achieve identification of the precise category of defects or faults. In this work, Electroluminescence imaged modules are automatically split into cells using projections on the x and y axes to detect cell boundaries. Regions containing potential defects or faults are then detected using Hough transform combined with mathematical morphology. Care is taken to remove most of the bus bars or cell boundaries. Afterwards, 25 features are computed, focusing on both the geometry of the regions (e.g. area, perimeter, circularity) and the statistical characteristics of their pixel values (e.g. median, standard deviation, skewness). Finally, features are mapped to the ground truth labels with Support Vector Machine (RBF kernel) and Random Forest algorithms, coupled with undersampling and SMOTE oversampling, with a stratified 5- folds approach for cross validation. A dataset of 982 Electroluminescence images of installed multi-crystalline photovoltaic modules was acquired in outdoor conditions (evening) with a CMOS sensor. After automatic blur detection, 753 images or 47244 cells remain to evaluate faults. All images were evaluated by experts in PV fault detection that labelled: Finger failures, and three types of cracks based on their respective severity levels (A, B and C). Our results based on 6 data series, yield using Support Vector Machine an accuracy of 0.997 and a recall of 0.274. Improving the region detection process will most likely allow improving the performance.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications : Applications of Machine Learning |
Editors | Michael E. Zelinski, Tarek M. Taha, Jonathan Howe, Abdul A. S. Awwal, Khan M. Iftekharuddin |
Number of pages | 9 |
Publisher | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering |
Publication date | Sept 2019 |
Article number | 1113904 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781510629714 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781510629721 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
Event | SPIE OPTICAL ENGINEERING + APPLICATIONS - San Diego, United States Duration: 11 Aug 2019 → 15 Aug 2019 |
Conference
Conference | SPIE OPTICAL ENGINEERING + APPLICATIONS |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | San Diego |
Period | 11/08/2019 → 15/08/2019 |
Series | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering |
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Volume | 11139 |
ISSN | 0277-786X |
Keywords
- Automatic defect detection
- Electroluminescence imaging
- Machine learning
- Photovoltaic panels
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DronEL - Fast and accurate inspection of large photovoltaic plants using aerial drone imaging
Séra, D., Spataru, S. V. & Parikh, H. R.
01/01/2017 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research