Edge device for ultraviolet fluorescence inspection of photovoltaic panels

Date

2023

Authors

Di Renzo, André Biffe
Martelli, Cicero
Cardozo da Silva, Jean Carlos

Director

Publisher

IEEE
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa

Project identifier

Impacto
OpenAlexGoogle Scholar
No disponible en Scopus

Abstract

Regular inspection of photovoltaic panels plays a key role in maximizing performance, ensuring safety, and extending the life of solar plants. This paper presents the construction of a 6W 365 nm ultraviolet light source for ultraviolet fluorescence (UVF) inspections coupled with an edge device used to capture and process the fluorescence images. In addition, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was applied to identify and classify automatically healthy and defective cells in the captured images. The trained AI presents a precision of 89%, and this result shows that the development of an ultraviolet light source coupled with an edge device for automatic cell classification could help with the maintenance staff to make routine UVF inspections to identify possible defects in cell structure, which is the main contribution of the presented work.

Description

Keywords

Artificial intelligence, Edge-device, Photovoltaic, Ultraviolet

Department

Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación / Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoa eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritza

Faculty/School

Degree

Doctorate program

item.page.cita

Di Renzo, A. B., Zamarreno, C. R., Martelli, C., Da Silva, J. C. C. (2023) Edge device for ultraviolet fluorescence inspection of photovoltaic panels. In [IEEE], 2023 IEEE Sensors (pp. 1-4). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SENSORS56945.2023.10325174.

item.page.rights

© 2023 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other work.

Los documentos de Academica-e están protegidos por derechos de autor con todos los derechos reservados, a no ser que se indique lo contrario.