Enhance PV Panel Detection Using Drone Equipped With RTK

Author(s):  
Hesham Ismail ◽  
Mohammed Alhussein ◽  
Nawal Aljasmi ◽  
Saeed Almazrouei

Abstract Solar energy is getting a lot of traction due to the reduced cost and friendlier to the environment compared to fossil fuel. It is essential to inspect the PV farms to ensure that the correct capacity produced through early PV fault detection. We proposed a full autonomous solution, where the drone mission is programmed to follow a specific Global Positioning System (GPS) waypoints. The collected videos will undergo various image processing techniques to detect and track the PV panels. In this paper, we tried two different PV panel detection approaches. Both detections gave acceptable results. The first detection relies on various image processing techniques. The second detection relies on deep learning architecture called mask Region-based Convolution Neural Network (R-CNN). After that, we track the PV panels in every frame using camera data alone. The advantage of tracking the PV panels is to ensure unrepeated PV panel through tagging even if the drone flies over the panel again since each PV panel will be associated with a tag. The next step will be to test the PV panel’s proposed detection and tracking algorithm on a larger solar farm.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Xuewu Zuo ◽  
Abid Ali ◽  
Gohar Ali ◽  
Muhammad Kamran Siddiqui ◽  
Muhammad Tariq Rahim ◽  
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Metric dimension is the extraction of the affine dimension (obtained from Euclidean space E d ) to the arbitrary metric space. A family ℱ = G n of connected graphs with n ≥ 3 is a family of constant metric dimension if dim G = k (some constant) for all graphs in the family. Family ℱ has bounded metric dimension if dim G n ≤ M , for all graphs in ℱ . Metric dimension is used to locate the position in the Global Positioning System (GPS), optimization, network theory, and image processing. It is also used for the location of hospitals and other places in big cities to trace these places. In this paper, we analyzed the features and metric dimension of generalized convex polytopes and showed that this family belongs to the family of bounded metric dimension.


India is an agricultural country where most of people are depends on the agriculture. When Plants are infected by the virus, fungus and bacteria, they are mostly seen on leaves and stems of the plants. Because of that, plants production is decreased also economy of the country is decreased. The farmer has to identify the disease and decide which pesticide will be used to control the disease in plants. To finding out which disease affect the plants, the farmer contacts the expert for the solution. The expert gives the advice based on its knowledge and information but sometimes seeking the expert advice is time consuming, expensive and may be not accurate. So, to solve this problem, the image processing techniques and Machine Learning algorithm like Neural Network, Fuzzy Logic and Support Vector Machine gives the better, accurate and affordable solution to control the plants disease than manual method.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Yona Fransiska Dewi ◽  
Nurul Fadillah

The various knowledge and techniques of digital image processing currently available vary greatly. Research and development has been carried out towards object detection and tracking. Color is one of the parameters used to detect and track objects. Humans can distinguish a color, but a computer may not necessarily recognize that color. Digital image processing techniques that can recognize colors, one of which is color filtering. In this study, Color filtering is a technique of processing digital images based on specific colors, detecting and tracking colors by using a web camera (webcam) and red objects. Object Tracking is the process of following an object that moves and moves position, so that the colored object being tracked will draw in realtime with the results of the colors that can be selected.


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