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Automatic Detection of Wind Turbine Blade Surface Cracks Based on UAV-Taken Images


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In this paper, a data-driven framework is proposed to automatically detect wind turbine blade surface cracks based on images taken by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Haa...Show More

Abstract:

In this paper, a data-driven framework is proposed to automatically detect wind turbine blade surface cracks based on images taken by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Haar-like features are applied to depict crack regions and train a cascading classifier for detecting cracks. Two sets of Haar-like features, the original and extended Haar-like features, are utilized. Based on selected Haar-like features, an extended cascading classifier is developed to perform the crack detection through stage classifiers selected from a set of base models, the LogitBoost, Decision Tree, and Support Vector Machine. In the detection, a scalable scanning window is applied to locate crack regions based on developed cascading classifiers using the extended feature set. The effectiveness of the proposed data-driven crack detection framework is validated by both UAV-taken images collected from a commercial wind farm and artificially generated. The extended cascading classifier is compared with a cascading classifier developed by the LogitBoost only to show its advantages in the image-based crack detection. A computational study is performed to further demonstrate the success of the proposed framework in identifying the number of cracks and locating them in original images.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics ( Volume: 64, Issue: 9, September 2017)
Page(s): 7293 - 7303
Date of Publication: 14 March 2017

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