Ice Detection on Rotor Blades of Wind Turbines using RGB Images and Convolutional Neural Networks

Autor: Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Michael Freitag, Markus Kreutz, Abderrahim Ait Alla, Anatoli Eisenstadt
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Procedia CIRP. 93:1292-1297
ISSN: 2212-8271
DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2020.04.107
Popis: Ice formed on wind turbines not only causes economic damage but also poses a risk to nearby humans. Countermeasuring ice formation requires reliable detection systems. Existing ice detection solutions have improved with time, but are still not sufficiently accurate. This paper investigates the use of different convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and RGB images taken from cameras installed on the nacelle of wind turbines to detect ice on the rotor blades. In our research, the VGG19 model achieved the best performance with an accuracy and an f1-score of (96 ± 2) %.
Databáze: OpenAIRE