The Efficiency Evaluated System for Solar Panel by Drone with Infrared Sensor

Nowadays, there are more and more robots replace human being's job. In recent years, the researches accelerate the technology development of multi rotor drone and make it become the flying robot that can self-stabilize and fly according to the waypoints setting by ground station. Therefore, this project designs a system to detect the efficacy of solar panel by UAV integrated with thermal sensors. Firstly, UAV flies above solar panel, takes picture by thermal sensors and transmits to website automatically. Secondly, the system cuts out the area that out of the panel, examine every pixel of the picture and calculates the ratio of red pixels that present the area of overheat. Finally, the system reports the efficacy of solar panel by program that judges from the ratio of overheat, weather condition, etc. By this way, we can save a lot of time and detect the solar panel safely.