Autonomous solar field and receiver inspections based on polarimetric-enhanced imaging
| DWPI Title: Imaging system for efficient and accurate autonomous field inspections, has imaging device which is configured to initiate optical inspection of concentrating solar power plant and perform maintenance on concentrating solar power plant |
| Abstract: Provided herein are systems and related methods of performing solar field and receiver inspections based on polarimetric-enhanced imaging. |
| Use: Imaging system for efficient and accurate autonomous field inspections. |
| Advantage: The autonomous detection of soiling conditions and defects improves the efficiency in scheduling heliostat washing and repair, and increases the solar-weighted heliostat reflectance and the collector optical efficiency. |
| Novelty: The imaging system has polarimetric imaging drones and algorithms for autonomous detection and measurement protocols. The imaging system is configured to initiate optical inspection of a concentrating solar power plant and assess a need to perform maintenance on the concentrating solar power plant. |
| Filed: 1/20/2021 |
| Application Number: US17153769A |
| Tech ID: SD 15198.1 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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