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  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Increasing demand for stable power supply necessitates robust transmission line infrastructure.
  • Insulators are critical components for conductor support and electrical insulation in transmission lines.
  • Real-time monitoring of insulator status is vital for ensuring power system safety and reliability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an efficient and accurate algorithm for detecting defects in transmission line insulators.
  • To improve upon existing object detection models for enhanced performance in power inspection applications.
  • To address challenges related to image quality and detail loss in insulator defect detection.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a novel transmission line insulator defect detection algorithm named MAP-YOLOv8.
  • Enhanced the YOLOv8 network by integrating GSConv and SimSPPF modules to optimize computation and feature extraction.
  • Introduced a new attention mechanism (MAP-CA) for fusing global and local image information, improving recognition accuracy.
  • Implemented super-resolution reconstruction for enhancing low-resolution insulator images.

Main Results:

  • The MAP-YOLOv8 model achieved an average accuracy of 96.6%, a 14% improvement over the base YOLOv8 model.
  • Demonstrated a memory usage of 8.3 MB and an F1 score of 0.981.
  • Achieved a detection speed of 89 frames per second, meeting real-time detection requirements.

Conclusions:

  • MAP-YOLOv8 offers a significant advancement in transmission line insulator defect detection.
  • The algorithm's high accuracy, efficiency, and real-time capabilities make it suitable for practical power inspection.
  • Image enhancement techniques further bolster the model's effectiveness in identifying subtle defects.