Microstructural and mechanical characterization of high strength porcelain insulators for power transmission and distribution applications

Yousaf, Maryam; Iqbal, Tanveer; Hussain, Muhammad Asif; Tabish, Asif Nadeem; Haq, Ehsan Ul; Siddiqi, Muhammad Hamid; Yasin, Saima; Mahmood, Hamayoun

doi:10.1016/j.ceramint.2021.09.239

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“…Insulators are essential components due to the high voltage level of transmission cables, which are used to support and separate electrical conductors without allowing current through themselves (Yousaf, Iqbal et al, 2022). However, insulators are usually exposed to various environmental and weather conditions, such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, typhoons, frost-covering, and rain.…”

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High Accuracy Real-Time Insulator String Defect Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv5

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Insulator string is a special insulation component which plays an important role in overhead transmission lines. However, working outdoors for a long time, insulators often have defects because of various environmental and weather conditions, which affect the normal operation of transmission lines and even cause huge economic losses. Therefore, insulator defect recognition is a crucial issue. Traditional insulator defect identification relies on manual work, which is time-consuming and inefficient. Therefore, the use of artificial intelligence to detect the defect location and recognize its class has become a key research field. By improving the classical YOLOv5 (you only look once) model, this article proposes a new method to enable high accuracy and real-time detection. Our method has three advantages: 1) Efficient-IoU (EIoU) replaces intersection over union (IoU) to calculate the loss of box regression, which overcomes that the detection is sensitive to various scale insulators in aerial images. 2) Since YOLOv5 itself detects some natural scenes in the real world, some anchors setting by default are not suitable for defect detection, this article introduces Assumption-free K-MC2 (AFK-MC2) algorithm into YOLOv5 to modify the K-means algorithm to improve accuracy and speed. 3) The cluster non-maximum suppression (Cluster-NMS) algorithm is introduced to avoid missing detection of insulators because of mutual occlusion in images and improve the computation speed at the same time. The experiments’ results show that this model can improve detection accuracy compared with YOLOv5 and realize real-time detection.

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