Cross-Sensor Consistency-Guided Dual-Spectrum Fusion for Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Defect Diagnosis and Risk...

Offshore wind turbine blades are chronically exposed to complex marine environments with high humidity, salt spray, strong wind, waves, and intense radiation. Under such conditions, blade defects often exhibit small sizes, weak visual features, and heterogeneous visible infrared manifestations. Conventional single-sensor monitoring and empirically weighted fusion methods are insufficient for reliable defect diagnosis and risk grading. To address this problem, this paper proposes a cross-sensor consistency-guided dual-spectrum fusion framework, termed CG-DSF, for offshore wind turbine blade defect diagnosis and risk assessment. First, visible-light images and infrared thermal images are acquired by UAV-mounted imaging sensors, and sensor-specific branches are constructed to extract surface structural features and thermal anomaly responses. Second, visible and infrared features are aligned at the feature token level, and cross-sensor evidence is evaluated for spatial consistency, diagnostic semantic consistency, and anomaly consistency. A reliability-aware fusion strategy is then used to suppress low-quality or conflicting observations and construct a unified defect representation. Finally, a series of representative simulation case studies are carried out to comprehensively assess the overall performance and practical applicability of the constructed model. Experimental results reveal that the proposed framework possesses evident advantages in blade defect identification for offshore wind turbines, offering a feasible solution for advancing proactive and intelligent condition-based operation and maintenance of offshore wind assets in complex marine environments.