LAPSE:2023.27342
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LAPSE:2023.27342
Remote Management Architecture of UAV Fleets for Maintenance, Surveillance, and Security Tasks in Solar Power Plants
April 4, 2023
This article presents a remote management architecture of an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fleet to aid in the management of solar power plants and object tracking. The proposed system is a competitive advantage for sola r energy production plants, due to the reduction in costs for maintenance, surveillance, and security tasks, especially in large solar farms. This new approach consists of creating a hardware and software architecture that allows for performing different tasks automatically, as well as remotely using fleets of UAVs. The entire system, composed of the aircraft, the servers, communication networks, and the processing center, as well as the interfaces for accessing the services via the web, has been designed for this specific purpose. Image processing and automated remote control of the UAV allow generating autonomous missions for the inspection of defects in solar panels, saving costs compared to traditional manual inspection. Another application of this architecture related to security is the detection and tracking of pedestrians and vehicles, both for road safety and for surveillance and security issues of solar plants. The novelty of this system with respect to current systems is summarized in that all the software and hardware elements that allow the inspection of solar panels, surveillance, and people counting, as well as traffic management tasks, have been defined and detailed. The modular system presented allows the exchange of different specific vision modules for each task to be carried out. Finally, unlike other systems, calibrated fixed cameras are used in addition to the cameras embedded in the drones of the fleet, which complement the system with vision algorithms based on deep learning for identification, surveillance, and inspection.
Keywords
distributed architecture, Energy, Fault Detection, management, solar panel, UAV
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Bemposta Rosende S, Sánchez-Soriano J, Gómez Muñoz CQ, Fernández Andrés J. Remote Management Architecture of UAV Fleets for Maintenance, Surveillance, and Security Tasks in Solar Power Plants. (2023). LAPSE:2023.27342
Author Affiliations
Bemposta Rosende S: Department of Science, Computing and Technology, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain
Sánchez-Soriano J: Department of Science, Computing and Technology, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain [ORCID]
Gómez Muñoz CQ: Department of Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain [ORCID]
Fernández Andrés J: Department of Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain [ORCID]
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Energies
Volume
13
Issue
21
Article Number
E5712
Year
2020
Publication Date
2020-11-01
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1996-1073
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PII: en13215712, Publication Type: Journal Article
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