Visual inspection of wind turbine blades

1. Visual Inspection of the
Wind Turbine Blades
Mykhailo (Mike) Kaskun
Oleksiy (Alex) Chernoloz

2. Outline
1. Brief description of the project
2. Problem definition
3. Methods/ proposed solution
4. Conclusions

3. Description of the project
▣ Siemens Gamesa Hermes
▣ Platform for the inspection and repair works
to the wind turbine blades
▣ Images from drones + AI analysis + storage
Image credit: Statoil
Image credit: ASM

4. Problem definition
Creation of the composite images:
Ground-based:
Offshore:

5. Sample input

6. Proposed solution
Cross-correlation algorithm
2500px overlap

7. Proposed solution
Cross-correlation algorithm
3500px overlap

8. Conclusions and Future work
1. Promising results of cross-correlation
Future work:
2. Cross-correlation for vertical shifts
3. Deep learning on the images database of the
offshore wind turbines

9. Source: https://www.riptapparel.com/
Q&A