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Solar cell surface defect inspection based on multispectral convolutional neural network

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  • Haiyong Chen

    (Hebei University of Technology
    Intelligent Rehabilitation Equipment and Detection Technology Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education)

  • Yue Pang

    (Hebei University of Technology)

  • Qidi Hu

    (Hebei University of Technology)

  • Kun Liu

    (Hebei University of Technology
    Intelligent Rehabilitation Equipment and Detection Technology Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education)

Abstract

Similar and indeterminate defect detection of solar cell surface with heterogeneous texture and complex background is a challenge of solar cell manufacturing. The traditional manufacturing process relies on human eye detection which requires a large number of workers without a stable and good detection effect. In order to solve the problem, a visual defect detection method based on multi-spectral deep convolutional neural network (CNN) is designed in this paper. Firstly, a selected CNN model is established. By adjusting the depth and width of the model, the influence of model depth and kernel size on the recognition result is evaluated. The optimal CNN model structure is selected. Secondly, the light spectrum features of solar cell color image are analyzed. It is found that a variety of defects exhibited different distinguishable characteristics in different spectral bands. Thus, a multi-spectral CNN model is constructed to enhance the discrimination ability of the model to distinguish between complex texture background features and defect features. Finally, some experimental results and K-fold cross validation show that the multi-spectral deep CNN model can effectively detect the solar cell surface defects with higher accuracy and greater adaptability. The accuracy of defect recognition reaches 94.30%. Applying such an algorithm can increase the efficiency of solar cell manufacturing and make the manufacturing process smarter.

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  • Haiyong Chen & Yue Pang & Qidi Hu & Kun Liu, 2020. "Solar cell surface defect inspection based on multispectral convolutional neural network," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 453-468, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joinma:v:31:y:2020:i:2:d:10.1007_s10845-018-1458-z
    DOI: 10.1007/s10845-018-1458-z
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