Micro-Fracture Detection in Photovoltaic Cells with Hardware-Constrained Devices and Computer Vision

arXiv:2403.05694v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Solar energy is rapidly becoming a robust renewable energy source to conventional finite resources such as fossil fuels. It is harvested using interconnected photovoltaic panels, typically built with crystalline silicon cells, i.e. semiconducting materials that convert effectively the solar radiation into electricity. However, crystalline silicon is fragile and vulnerable to cracking over time or in predictive maintenance tasks, which can lead to electric isolation of parts of the solar cell and even failure, thus affecting …

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