[HTML][HTML] A review of automated solar photovoltaic defect detection systems: Approaches, challenges, and future orientations

U Hijjawi, S Lakshminarayana, T Xu, GPM Fierro… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of Photovoltaic (PV) technology has paved the path to the exponential
growth of solar cell deployment worldwide. Nevertheless, the energy efficiency of solar cells …

Deep CNN-based visual defect detection: Survey of current literature

SB Jha, RF Babiceanu - Computers in Industry, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past years, the computer vision domain has been profoundly changed by the advent of
deep learning algorithms and data science. The defect detection problem is of outmost …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing solar plant efficiency: A review of vision-based monitoring and fault detection techniques

I Polymeropoulos, S Bezyrgiannidis, E Vrochidou… - Technologies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Over the last decades, environmental awareness has provoked scientific interest in green
energy, produced, among others, from solar sources. However, for the efficient operation …

Fault detection from PV images using hybrid deep learning model

H Yousif, Z Al-Milaji - Solar Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Monitoring and maintenance of photovoltaic (PV) systems are critical in order to ensure
continuous power generation and prevent operation drops. Manual inspection of high …

Anomaly detection in electroluminescence images of heterojunction solar cells

A Korovin, A Vasilev, F Egorov, D Saykin, E Terukov… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficient defect detection in solar cell manufacturing is crucial for stable green energy
technology manufacturing. This paper presents a deep-learning-based automatic detection …

Deep learning-based automated defect classification in electroluminescence images of solar panels

HM Al-Otum - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
The rise of deep learning approaches has boosted the modern computing capabilities and
paved the way to novel outstanding applications. Recently, deep neural networks (DNN) …

Determining circuit model parameters from operation data for PV system degradation analysis: PVPRO

B Li, T Karin, BE Meyers, X Chen, DC Jordan… - Solar Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Physics-based circuit parameters like series and shunt resistance are essential to provide
insights into the degradation status of photovoltaic (PV) arrays. However, calculating these …

Investigation on a lightweight defect detection model for photovoltaic panel

F Bin, K Qiu, Z Zheng, X Lu, L Du, Q Sun - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
The detection of defect types of photovoltaic (PV) panel is a crucial task in PV system.
Existing detection models face challenges in effectively balancing the trade-off between …

Enhanced photovoltaic panel defect detection via adaptive complementary fusion in YOLO-ACF

W Pan, X Sun, Y Wang, Y Cao, Y Lang, Y Qian - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Detecting defects on photovoltaic panels using electroluminescence images can
significantly enhance the production quality of these panels. Nonetheless, in the process of …

Automatic crack segmentation and feature extraction in electroluminescence images of solar modules

X Chen, T Karin, C Libby, M Deceglie… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The effect of cracks in solar cells on the long-term degradation of photovoltaic (PV) modules
remains to be determined. To investigate this effect in future studies, it is necessary to …