Detection of solar panel defects based on separable convolution and convolutional block attention module

X Yang, Q Zhang, S Wang, Y Zhao - Energy Sources, Part A …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The share of renewable energy in the electricity market is increasing year by year. It is
necessary to identify damage of solar panels in a timely manner, as solar panels are …

Fault diagnosis for solar panels using convolutional neural network

Z Huang, S Duan, F Long, Y Li, J Zhu… - 2021 33rd Chinese …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fault diagnosis of solar panels is essential for production capacity and safety of solar
energy, and has caught considerable attention. This paper presents an efficient method …

Detection of surface defects in solar cells by bidirectional-path feature pyramid group-wise attention detector

H Chen, M Song, Z Zhang, K Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the multiscale characteristics of defects and strong background interference, the
automation of solar cell surface defect detection is still a challenge. To address this problem …

Surface defect detection of solar cells based on feature pyramid network and GA-faster-RCNN

L Liu, Y Zhu, MRU Rahman, P Zhao… - 2019 2nd China …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic defect detection of solar cells' near-infrared electroluminescence (EL) images is a
challenging task due to non-uniform complex texture background interference and the …

Novel Multi-Step Deep Learning Approach for Detection of Complex Defects in Solar Cells

W Jiang, H Zheng, J Bao - Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University …, 2023 - Springer
Solar cell defects exhibit significant variations and multiple types, with some defect data
being difficult to acquire or having small scales, posing challenges in terms of small sample …

Surface defect detection of solar cells based on multiscale region proposal fusion network

X Zhang, T Hou, Y Hao, H Shangguan, A Wang… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Manufacturing process and human operational errors may cause small-sized defects, such
as cracks, over-welding, and black edges, on solar cell surfaces. These surface defects are …

Research on online defect detection method of solar cell component based on lightweight convolutional neural network

H Liu, W Ding, Q Huang, L Fang - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The defects of solar cell component (SCC) will affect the service life and power generation
efficiency. In this paper, the defect images of SCC were taken by the photoluminescence …

Image defect detection and segmentation algorithm of solar cell based on convolutional neural network

S Tian, W Li, S Li, G Tian, L Sun… - 2021 6th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of infrared or electroluminescence (EL) images of solar cell modules for defect
detection is a very important method in non-destructive testing. Traditionally, this work is …

A comprehensive study for solar panel fault detection using VGG16 and VGG19 convolutional neural networks

A Mahmud, MSR Shishir, R Hasan… - … on Computer and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The utilization of solar energy has experienced remarkable growth as a sustainable and
clean alternative to conventional power sources. Solar panels, as the fundamental …

Surface defect detection of solar cell based on similarity non-maximum suppression mechanism

Y Wang, T Hou, X Zhang, H Shangguan… - Signal, Image and Video …, 2023 - Springer
The surface defects such as cracks, broken cells and unsoldered areas on the solar cell
caused by manufacturing process defects or artificial operation seriously affect the efficiency …