Surface defect detection methods for industrial products: A review

Y Chen, Y Ding, F Zhao, E Zhang, Z Wu, L Shao - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The comprehensive intelligent development of the manufacturing industry puts forward new
requirements for the quality inspection of industrial products. This paper summarizes the …

Failures of Photovoltaic modules and their Detection: A Review

MW Akram, G Li, Y Jin, X Chen - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Photovoltaic (PV) has emerged as a promising and phenomenal renewable energy
technology in the recent past and the PV market has developed at an exponential rate …

CNN based automatic detection of photovoltaic cell defects in electroluminescence images

MW Akram, G Li, Y Jin, X Chen, C Zhu, X Zhao… - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Automatic defect detection is gaining huge importance in photovoltaic (PV) field due to
limited application of manual/visual inspection and rising production quantities of PV …

Automatic detection of photovoltaic module defects in infrared images with isolated and develop-model transfer deep learning

MW Akram, G Li, Y Jin, X Chen, C Zhu, A Ahmad - Solar Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rising use of photovoltaic and ongoing installation of large-scale photovoltaic
systems worldwide, the automation of photovoltaic monitoring methods becomes important …

Efficient deep feature extraction and classification for identifying defective photovoltaic module cells in Electroluminescence images

MY Demirci, N Beşli, A Gümüşçü - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroluminescence (EL) imaging has become the standard test procedure for defect
detection throughout the production, installation and operation stages of solar modules …

Defect detection and quantification in electroluminescence images of solar PV modules using U-net semantic segmentation

L Pratt, D Govender, R Klein - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Electroluminescence (EL) images enable defect detection in solar photovoltaic (PV)
modules that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye, much the same way an x-ray enables …

Applications of artificial intelligence to photovoltaic systems: a review

HF Mateo Romero, MÁ González Rebollo… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article analyzes the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and photovoltaic
(PV) systems. Solar energy is one of the most important renewable energies, and the …

Automated defect identification in electroluminescence images of solar modules

X Chen, T Karin, A Jain - Solar Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar photovoltaic (PV) modules are susceptible to manufacturing defects, mishandling
problems or extreme weather events that can limit energy production or cause early device …

Surface defect detection methods for industrial products with imbalanced samples: A review of progress in the 2020s

D Bai, G Li, D Jiang, J Yun, B Tao, G Jiang… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Industrial products typically lack defects in smart manufacturing systems, which leads to an
extremely imbalanced task of recognizing surface defects. With this imbalanced sample …

Towards more reliable photovoltaic energy conversion systems: A weakly-supervised learning perspective on anomaly detection

Z Chang, K Jia, T Han, YM Wei - Energy Conversion and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
With the increasing popularity of photovoltaic (PV) systems, both academia and industry
have been paying growing attention to fault prediction and health management. Although …