A Review on Defect Detection of Electroluminescence-Based Photovoltaic Cell Surface Images Using Computer Vision

Tahir Hussain, Muhammad Hussain, Hussain Al-Aqrabi (), Tariq Alsboui and Richard Hill
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Tahir Hussain: Department of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Muhammad Hussain: Department of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Hussain Al-Aqrabi: Department of Computer Information System (CIS), Higher Colleges of Technology, Sharjah P.O. Box 7947, United Arab Emirates
Tariq Alsboui: Department of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
Richard Hill: Department of Computer Science, Centre for Industrial Analytics, School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: The past two decades have seen an increase in the deployment of photovoltaic installations as nations around the world try to play their part in dampening the impacts of global warming. The manufacturing of solar cells can be defined as a rigorous process starting with silicon extraction. The increase in demand has multiple implications for manual quality inspection. With automated inspection as the ultimate goal, researchers are actively experimenting with convolutional neural network architectures. This review presents an overview of the electroluminescence image-extraction process, conventional image-processing techniques deployed for solar cell defect detection, arising challenges, the present landscape shifting towards computer vision architectures, and emerging trends.

Keywords: defect detection; photovoltaics; micro-cracks; automation; deep learning; computer vision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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