Research Article

Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images

Volume: 19 Number: 2 September 30, 2024
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Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images

Abstract

In today’s world, the rapid development of photovoltaic (PV) power plants has facilitated sustainable energy production. Maintenance and defect detection play crucial roles in ensuring the continuity of energy production. The manual inspection of electroluminescence (EL) images of PV modules requires significant human power and time investment. This study presents a method for the automatic fault detection of PV cells in EL images using hybrid deep features optimized with a principal component analysis (PCA) feature selection algorithm. A lightweight and high-performance model that combines the strengths of convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures was proposed. First, data augmentation techniques were employed owing to the imbalance between the defective and functional classes in the dataset containing EL images. In experimental studies conducted by integrating the PCA algorithm into MobileNetV2, DenseNet201, and InceptionV3 CNN models, accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score values of 92.19%, 92%, 90%, and 91%, respectively, were achieved. When the results were analyzed, it was observed that the proposed method was effective in detecting faults in PV panel cells.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Image Processing, Deep Learning

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

September 30, 2024

Submission Date

March 1, 2024

Acceptance Date

September 28, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 19 Number: 2

APA
İmak, A. (2024). Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology, 19(2), 497-508. https://doi.org/10.55525/tjst.1445681
AMA
1.İmak A. Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images. TJST. 2024;19(2):497-508. doi:10.55525/tjst.1445681
Chicago
İmak, Andaç. 2024. “Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images”. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology 19 (2): 497-508. https://doi.org/10.55525/tjst.1445681.
EndNote
İmak A (September 1, 2024) Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology 19 2 497–508.
IEEE
[1]A. İmak, “Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images”, TJST, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 497–508, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.55525/tjst.1445681.
ISNAD
İmak, Andaç. “Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images”. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology 19/2 (September 1, 2024): 497-508. https://doi.org/10.55525/tjst.1445681.
JAMA
1.İmak A. Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images. TJST. 2024;19:497–508.
MLA
İmak, Andaç. “Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images”. Turkish Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 2, Sept. 2024, pp. 497-08, doi:10.55525/tjst.1445681.
Vancouver
1.Andaç İmak. Automatic Classification of Defective Photovoltaic Module Cells Based on a Novel CNN-PCA-SVM Deep Hybrid Model in Electroluminescence Images. TJST. 2024 Sep. 1;19(2):497-508. doi:10.55525/tjst.1445681

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