CN109002048A - A kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle - Google Patents

A kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle Download PDF

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CN109002048A
CN109002048A CN201810603936.1A CN201810603936A CN109002048A CN 109002048 A CN109002048 A CN 109002048A CN 201810603936 A CN201810603936 A CN 201810603936A CN 109002048 A CN109002048 A CN 109002048A
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The scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle that the present invention relates to a kind of.Unmanned plane can be handled visible light video stream information by carrying processor;After unmanned plane lift-off, in conjunction with oneself state information, photovoltaic group displacement in the visual field can be calculated and set and orientation, according to calculated result, unmanned plane can realize the automatic tracking to photovoltaic group string;By calculating flying distance, unmanned plane can automatic collection visible images and infrared picture data;When unmanned plane reaches zone boundary, automatic execute turns to strategy;It repeats the above process, the image data acquiring task to entire centralized photovoltaic plant may be implemented in unmanned plane, and can be further used for fault detection.Compared to other collecting methods based on unmanned plane, this method implements simple, efficient, the location information independent of photovoltaic module, it is only necessary to obtain the area information of photovoltaic plant, have extremely strong environmental suitability.

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A kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is adopted Set method
Technical field
The present invention relates to the inspections of the application and development of unmanned plane and scale centralization photovoltaic plant, more particularly, to one kind Scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle.
Background technique
Unmanned plane industry has welcome the development of blowout in worldwide, in recent years Chinese market consumer level unmanned plane Growth rate remains at 50% or more, occupies world consumption grade unmanned plane city by the Chinese unmanned plane enterprise of representative of big boundary 70% or more of field.What the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology printed and distributed " anticipates about promotion and the guidance of the civilian unmanned plane development of manufacturing of specification See " it is clear, civilian unmanned plane industry is by sustained and rapid development, and the year two thousand twenty output value reaches 60,000,000,000 yuan, 40% or more average annual growth rate; By 2025, the civilian unmanned plane output value reached 180,000,000,000 yuan.Unmanned plane industry is booming rising industry.
Due to can be simple with VTOL, control, multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle be able to fast-developing and universal, is very suitable to execute The tasks such as near-earth investigates, monitors, taking photo by plane, early warning, agricultural plant protection;The nothings such as automatic obstacle avoiding, automatically track target, autonomous trajectory planning The development of man-machine the relevant technologies, so that the robot that unmanned plane is gradually developed by the camera to fly as flight.
In photovoltaic art, the newly-increased installation 53.06GW of China's photovoltaic in 2017 creates the new highest record in history.Due to the photovoltaic module longevity Life about 25 years, large-sized photovoltaic power station needed to stablize in the longer time period, efficiently generate electricity, and inspection is photovoltaic plant The core content of operation.
However, this routine inspection mode efficiency is extremely low at present to the inspection of photovoltaic plant still based on manual inspection, and Since centralized photovoltaic plant installation environment is complex, manual inspection is difficult to meet the requirements under most of scene.
Summary of the invention
For the existing deficiency towards large centralised photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method, the invention proposes one Scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method of the kind based on unmanned plane.
The technical solution adopted in the present invention is as follows:
Step (1) obtains scale collection according to design of photovoltaic power station drawing, high definition satellite image or unmanned plane high-altitude image The zone boundary information of Chinese style photovoltaic plant;
Step (2) carries out the scale centralization photovoltaic plant zone boundary information obtained in step (1) with polygon Fitting, formation zone polygon generate multiple regions polygon if photovoltaic group string is distributed in multiple regions;With side clockwise To the apex coordinate of record area polygon;
Step (3) selects the geographically south or the vertex of the North rising as area polygonal to each area polygonal Initial point;To the starting point of each area polygonal, if photovoltaic module is distributed in the east of starting point, prime direction is east, if Photovoltaic module is distributed in the west of starting point, then prime direction is west;If starting point is located at area polygonal south, the side of cruise Xiang Weibei, if starting point is located at the area polygonal north, south is in direction of cruising;
Step (4), the area polygonal as step (2) determine be not unique, it is determined that the data acquisition of area polygonal is suitable Sequence successively executes step (5)~step (10) to each area polygonal;
Step (5) starts unmanned plane, in NED coordinate system, by the yaw angle of the yaw angle of unmanned plane and Visible Light Camera It is set as 0, sets unmanned plane during flying rate v0, the initial flight speed of unmanned plane is determined according to the prime direction that step (3) determine Degree, when inceptive direction is east, initial flight speed isIt is initial to fly when inceptive direction is western Scanning frequency degree isSet dis=0;Wherein, vx、vyRespectively north, east to flying speed, Dis is flying distance when unmanned plane carries out data acquisition to every a line photovoltaic module, and n_turn is unmanned plane in zone boundary The number of turns at place and its initial value are 0;
Step (6), unmanned plane processor obtain visible light video stream, are detected to current video frame by image processing algorithm Photovoltaic module, the boundary straight line for obtaining photovoltaic group string according to the slope of photovoltaic group string boundary straight line and position and combine flight high Degree calculates the longitudinal pixel-shift amount of the orientation of photovoltaic group string and photovoltaic group string relative to video flowing central point;
Holder yaw angle is calculated in step (7), the photovoltaic group string orientation and offset obtained according to step (6) Adjustment amount and speed value;
Step (8) repeats step (6), step (7) with fixed and not less than 5Hz frequency, until unmanned plane reaches Zone boundary;During executing step (6), step (7), such as meet abs (dis-n*dis_photo)≤0.1, unmanned plane Visible Light Camera and infrared camera acquire image data;Wherein, n is natural number, dis_photo be image data acquiring away from It sows discord every abs is to ask signed magnitude arithmetic(al);
Step (9) executes when unmanned plane reaches zone boundary and turns to strategy, dis=0, n_turn=n_turn+1;
Step (10), unmanned plane continue to execute Image Acquisition task to the photovoltaic module of current line, are determined according to step (5) Initial flight speed, execute step (6)~step (9) until unmanned plane is completed to the traversal of area polygonal.
Further, the following conditions are followed when the polygon of formation zone in the step (2):
R010: if two distributed areas of photovoltaic module are connections, then it is considered as a region;
R020: on the basis of R010, the fitted polygon of each distributed areas is generated according to area minimum principle;
R030: if fitted polygon is concave polygon, seeking the external convex polygon of this concave polygon, will according to connectivity External convex polygon and concave polygon difference portion are divided into several non-interconnected regions;For the arbitrary region of difference portion, such as should Region east and west sides intersect with concave polygon, then this concave polygon cannot function as area polygonal, otherwise concave polygon conduct Area polygonal;
R040: all convex polygons all can serve as area polygonal;
R050: if concave polygon cannot function as area polygonal, needing to decompose concave polygon, until after decomposing All polygons can act as area polygonal, and the principle of decomposition is all areas polygon North and South direction span and most after decomposing It is small.
Further, the orientation of photovoltaic group string and photovoltaic group string are calculated in the step (6) relative in video flowing Longitudinal pixel-shift amount of heart point specifically comprises the following steps:
S010: unmanned plane processor obtains visible light video frame, by color space conversion it will be seen that the conversion of light video frame To HSV space, each channel threshold value of HSV space is set according to the color characteristic on photovoltaic module surface, HSV image is converted into two-value Image;
S020: morphology closed operation is carried out to bianry image, the bianry image of close photovoltaic module is connected to, is expanded Photovoltaic group string bianry image afterwards;
S030: the straight line information at photovoltaic group string edge after extension is extracted by Hough transformation, obtains photovoltaic group string edge line Section, removal slope absolute value is greater than 0.8 or length is less than the line segment of longest line segment half, the remaining line segment G-bar k_ of calculating Ave and extension after longitudinal pixel-shift amount pix_err of the photovoltaic group string up-and-down boundary center line relative to video flowing central point;
S040: in NED coordinate system, according to unmanned plane body yaw angle θ1, holder yaw angle θ2And photovoltaic module is in nothing Inclination angle theta in man-machine video frame3Determine photovoltaic group string orientation, that is, being parallel to east-west direction angle is θ=θ123's Straight line;Wherein, θ3=arctan (k_ave).
Further, the calculation method of holder yaw angle adjustment amount and speed value in the step (7) are as follows:
R110: according to the calculated result of step S040, the adjustment amount of unmanned machine head yaw angle is Δ θ23
R120: according to the calculated result of step S030, photovoltaic group string up-and-down boundary center line is relative in image after extension The real offset of heart point position is approximately d_err=pix_err/pix_height*H*tan (0.5*FOV);Wherein H For the difference in height of unmanned plane Visible Light Camera and photovoltaic module, pix_height is video frame pixel line number, and FOV is vertical field of view Angle;
R130: according to the calculated result in step R120, when unmanned plane is from western flight eastwards, speed command isWhen unmanned plane flight from east to west, speed command isIts In,Can prevent excessive | d_err |, a, b are normal number.
Further, in the step (8) unmanned plane reach zone boundary decision condition are as follows: unmanned plane position arrival area Outside the polygon of domain, and met according to the bianry image that step S010 is obtainedWherein, n=pix_ Width*pix_height is image pixel number,For the pixel quantity for belonging to photovoltaic module that step S010 is handled, xiFor bianry image pixel value, ColorThreshold is the threshold value for judging to whether there is in the visual field photovoltaic module.
Further, the distance interval dis_photo of visible images and infrared image acquisition is not in the step (8) Together, i.e., according to Visible Light Camera and infrared camera parameter, visible images and infrared image imaging characteristics, not for the two setting Same distance interval.
Further, mainly comprising the processes of for strategy is turned in the step (9)
S110: unmanned plane flight S on cruise direction1Distance, S1About photovoltaic group string fore-and-aft distance interval;
S120: as UAV Video frame is unsatisfactory for the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), unmanned plane during flying side at this time To identical as heading when previous row photovoltaic group string image data acquiring, until unmanned plane meets the region in step (8) Edge determination condition, starting point of the position as new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring at this time;Such as unmanned aerial vehicle vision at this time Frequency frame meets the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), and unmanned plane during flying direction is adopted with previous row photovoltaic group string image data Heading when collection is on the contrary, until unmanned plane is just unsatisfactory for the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), position at this time Starting point as new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring;
S130: after the starting point of the new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring of determination, unmanned plane during flying direction is set as With heading when previous row photovoltaic group string image data acquiring on the contrary, steering procedure terminates.
Further, obstacle avoidance module and vertical range finder module are installed in the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle that the present invention is based on, Vertical range finder module ensures that the photovoltaic module of unmanned plane and underface keeps stable difference in height by the lifting of control unmanned plane.
Further, the Visible Light Camera and infrared camera that the present invention is based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is carried vertically to Down and have three axis from steady function.
Beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows: acquiring picture number using UAV flight's Visible Light Camera and infrared camera According to, can greatly improve the image data acquiring efficiency of scale centralization photovoltaic plant, these image datas be accident analysis with The important foundation of diagnosis, health degree assessment.Compared to traditional artificial acquisition method, this method can have very high automatic Change level, the image data acquiring efficiency of scale centralization photovoltaic plant can be greatly improved;Unmanned plane is based on compared to other Collecting method, this method implements simple, efficiently, the location information independent of photovoltaic module, it is only necessary to obtain photovoltaic electric The area information stood has extremely strong environmental suitability.
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Fig. 1 is the scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring plan of the present invention based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle Slightly flow chart;
Fig. 2 is to generate fitted polygon schematic diagram according to photovoltaic module boundary information;
Fig. 3 .1 is the recessed fitted polygon schematic diagram without decomposition;
Fig. 3 .2 is the recessed fitted polygon schematic diagram for needing to decompose;
Fig. 4 is area polygonal starting point, prime direction and cruise direction schematic diagram;
Fig. 5 .1 is a width video frame instance graph;
Fig. 5 .2 is HSV Threshold segmentation result;
Fig. 5 .3 is schematic diagram calculation;
Fig. 5 .4 is the calculated result of photovoltaic group string boundary straight line G-bar and offset;
Fig. 6 is unmanned plane yaw angle in NED coordinate system, holder yaw angle, photovoltaic group string rotation angle relation schematic diagram;
Fig. 7 is that speed command calculates schematic diagram in NED coordinate system;
Fig. 8 .1 is that unmanned plane starts flight course schematic diagram of the initial position outside region after turning;
Fig. 8 .2 is that unmanned plane starts flight course schematic diagram of the initial position in region after turning.
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Directions vocabulary such as " east " " west " is used for multiple times in the present invention, is mainly based upon considered below: due to photovoltaic power generation Feature, for all photovoltaic modulies all approximately towards geographic " south ", lateral photovoltaic group string arrangement is then approximate between east and west To although photovoltaic module direction and orientation and geographic direction use these letters there are deviation under actual conditions Breath is that unmanned plane specifies starting point and approximate heading is still feasible;On the basis for understanding photovoltaic module characteristic distributions On, reduce deviation to make unmanned plane realization realize the accurate tracking of photovoltaic group string by visual servo process.
It is that the scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data of the present invention based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is adopted shown in Fig. 1 Set method flow chart illustrates the main process of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring, detailed and specific Process can be expressed as follows:
Step (1) obtains scale collection according to design of photovoltaic power station drawing, high definition satellite image or unmanned plane high-altitude image The zone boundary information of Chinese style photovoltaic plant;
Step (2) carries out the scale centralization photovoltaic plant zone boundary information obtained in step (1) with polygon Fitting, formation zone polygon then generate multiple regions if photovoltaic group string is distributed between multiple regions and region relatively far apart Polygon;The apex coordinate of record area polygon in a clockwise direction.It is deposited as an example, Fig. 2 illustrates the distribution of photovoltaic group string The schematic diagram of multiple regions polygon is generated when apparent regional;
Further, the following conditions are followed when step (2) formation zone polygon:
R010: if two distributed areas of photovoltaic module are connections, then it is considered as a region;
R020: on the basis of condition R010, the fitted polygon of each distributed areas is generated according to area minimum principle, Fitted polygon is either convex polygon, be also possible to concave polygon;
R030: if fitted polygon is concave polygon, seeking the external convex polygon of this concave polygon, will according to connectivity External convex polygon and concave polygon difference portion are divided into several non-interconnected regions;For the arbitrary region of difference portion, such as should Region east and west sides intersect with concave polygon, then this concave polygon cannot function as area polygonal, otherwise concave polygon conduct Area polygonal;
R040: all convex polygons all can serve as area polygonal;
R050: if concave polygon cannot function as area polygonal, needing to decompose concave polygon, until after decomposing All polygons all can serve as area polygonal, the principle of decomposition be after decomposing all areas polygon North and South direction span and It is minimum that (Fig. 3 .1 intuitively illustrates the concave polygon that can be used as area polygonal and not can be used as the recessed polygon of area polygonal Shape, and the concave polygon that not can be used as area polygonal is decomposed, the presence of " difference region 2 " makes recessed quasi- in Fig. 3 .2 It closes polygon to be decomposed);
Step (3) selects the geographically south or the vertex of the North rising as area polygonal to each area polygonal Initial point;The east of starting point is distributed in the starting point of each area polygonal, such as photovoltaic module, then prime direction is east, such as Photovoltaic module is distributed in the west of starting point, then prime direction is west;To the starting point of each area polygonal, point is such as originated In area polygonal south, then north is in direction of cruising, and if starting point is located at the area polygonal north, then south is in direction of cruising;Fig. 4 The selection of area polygonal starting point, the determination of prime direction and direction of cruising are illustrated, what " south " " the North " herein referred to It is the vertex in area polygonal southern side, north side boundary, in figureFor the coordinate of starting point 1, prime direction, patrol The vector for direction composition of navigating, s2(x2,y2) be starting point 2 position coordinates,For the prime direction of starting point 3,For starting point 4 cruise direction
Step (4), the area polygonal as step (2) determine be not unique, it is determined that the data acquisition of area polygonal is suitable Sequence successively executes step (5)~step (10) to each area polygonal;
Step (5) starts unmanned plane, in NED coordinate system (navigational coordinate system), by the yaw angle and visible light of unmanned plane The yaw angle of camera is set as 0, sets unmanned plane during flying rate v0, unmanned plane is determined according to the prime direction that step (3) determine Initial flight speed, when inceptive direction be east when, initial flight speed isWork as inceptive direction When being western, initial flight speed isSet dis=0;Wherein, vx、vyRespectively north, east To flying speed, dis be unmanned plane to every a line photovoltaic module carry out data acquisition when flying distance, n_turn is nobody Number of turns and its initial value of the machine at zone boundary are 0;
Step (6), unmanned plane processor obtain visible light video stream, are detected to current video frame by image processing algorithm Photovoltaic module, the boundary straight line for obtaining photovoltaic group string according to the slope of photovoltaic group string boundary straight line and position and combine flight high Degree calculates the longitudinal pixel-shift amount of the orientation of photovoltaic group string and photovoltaic group string relative to video flowing central point;
Further, the orientation of photovoltaic group string and photovoltaic group string are calculated in step (6) relative to video flowing central point Longitudinal pixel-shift amount specifically comprise the following steps:
S010: unmanned plane processor obtains visible light video frame, by color space conversion it will be seen that the conversion of light video frame To HSV space, each channel threshold value of HSV space is set (such as to photovoltaic module surface according to the color characteristic on photovoltaic module surface Blue-black tone it is more sensitive, to illumination-insensitive), HSV image is converted into bianry image;
S020: morphology closed operation is carried out to bianry image, the bianry image of close photovoltaic module is connected to, is expanded Photovoltaic group string bianry image afterwards;
S030: the straight line information at photovoltaic group string edge after extension is extracted by Hough transformation, obtains photovoltaic group string edge line Section, removal slope absolute value is greater than 0.8 or length is less than the line segment of longest line segment half, the remaining line segment G-bar k_ of calculating Ave and extension after longitudinal pixel-shift amount pix_err of the photovoltaic group string up-and-down boundary center line relative to video flowing central point;
S040: in NED coordinate system (navigational coordinate system), according to unmanned plane body yaw angle θ1, holder yaw angle θ2And Inclination angle theta of the photovoltaic module in UAV Video frame3It determines photovoltaic group string orientation, that is, is parallel to and is with east-west direction angle θ=θ123Straight line;Wherein, θ3=arctan (k_ave);
Fig. 5 .1- Fig. 5 .4 is example using the unmanned plane figure of a secondary photovoltaic module, demonstrates calculating photovoltaic group string and is regarding The process of angle and offset is rotated in frequency frame;Fig. 6 gives unmanned plane yaw angle in NED coordinate system, holder yaw angle, photovoltaic Group string rotation angle relation schematic diagram;
Holder yaw angle is calculated in step (7), the photovoltaic group string orientation and offset obtained according to step (6) Adjustment amount and speed value, it is therefore an objective to so that the displacement of photovoltaic group in video flow center, photovoltaic group string in video streaming Transverse rotation angle is zero;
Further, the calculation method of holder yaw angle adjustment amount and speed value in step (7) are as follows:
R110: according to the calculated result of S040, the adjustment amount of unmanned machine head yaw angle is Δ θ23
R120: according to the calculated result of S030, photovoltaic group string up-and-down boundary center line is relative to image center after extension The real offset of position is approximately d_err=pix_err/pix_height*H*tan (0.5*FOV);Wherein H is nothing The difference in height of man-machine Visible Light Camera and photovoltaic module, pix_height are video frame pixel line number, and FOV is vertical field of view angle;
R130: according to the calculated result in R120, when unmanned plane is from western flight eastwards, speed command isWhen unmanned plane flight from east to west, speed command is Wherein,Can prevent excessive | d_err |, a, b are normal number;Fig. 7 illustrates NED coordinate system middling speed Degree instruction calculates schematic diagram;
Step (8) repeats step (6), step (7) with fixed and not less than 5Hz frequency, until unmanned plane reaches Zone boundary;During executing step (6), step (7), such as meeting abs (dis-n*dis_photo)≤0.1, (n is certainly So number), unmanned plane Visible Light Camera and infrared camera acquire image data;Wherein, dis_photo is image data acquiring Distance interval;Abs is to ask signed magnitude arithmetic(al);
Further, in step (8) unmanned plane reach zone boundary decision condition are as follows: unmanned plane position reach region it is more Outside the shape of side, and met according to the bianry image that S010 is obtainedWherein, n=pix_width* Pix_height is image pixel number,For the pixel quantity for belonging to photovoltaic module that S010 is handled, xiFor binary map As pixel value, ColorThreshold is the threshold value for judging to whether there is in the visual field photovoltaic module;
Further, the distance interval dis_photo of visible images and infrared image acquisition can not in step (8) Together, it can according to Visible Light Camera and infrared camera parameter, visible images and infrared image imaging characteristics, set for the two Fixed different distance interval;
Step (9) executes when unmanned plane reaches zone boundary and turns to strategy, dis=0, n_turn=n_turn+1
Further, mainly comprising the processes of for strategy is turned in step (9)
S110: unmanned plane flight S on cruise direction1Distance, S1About photovoltaic group string fore-and-aft distance interval
S120: as UAV Video frame is unsatisfactory for the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), unmanned plane during flying side at this time To identical as heading when previous row photovoltaic group string image data acquiring, until unmanned plane meets the region in step (8) Edge determination condition, starting point of the position as new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring at this time;Such as unmanned aerial vehicle vision at this time Frequency frame meets the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), and unmanned plane during flying direction is adopted with previous row photovoltaic group string image data Heading when collection is on the contrary, until unmanned plane is just unsatisfactory for the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), position at this time Starting point as new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring;
S130: after the starting point of the new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring of determination, unmanned plane during flying direction is set as With heading when previous row photovoltaic group string image data acquiring on the contrary, steering procedure terminates;Fig. 8 features S110~S130 Steering strategy of the determining unmanned plane at area polygonal boundary;
Step (10), unmanned plane continue to execute Image Acquisition task to the photovoltaic module of current line, specifically i.e. basis Method in step (5) determines initial flight speed, executes step (6)~step (9) until unmanned plane completion is polygon to region The traversal of shape;
It is further noted that multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle stage+module described in this method has obstacle avoidance module and vertical survey Away from module, vertical range finder module can ensure that the photovoltaic module of unmanned plane and underface keeps stablizing by controlling the lifting of unmanned plane Difference in height;The Visible Light Camera and infrared camera that multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle platform described in this method carries vertically downward and have Three axis are from steady function.

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1. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data acquiring method based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, which is characterized in that Method includes the following steps:
Step (1) obtains scale centralization according to design of photovoltaic power station drawing, high definition satellite image or unmanned plane high-altitude image The zone boundary information of photovoltaic plant;
Step (2) intends the scale centralization photovoltaic plant zone boundary information obtained in step (1) with polygon It closes, formation zone polygon generates multiple regions polygon if photovoltaic group string is distributed in multiple regions;In a clockwise direction The apex coordinate of record area polygon;
Step (3) selects the starting of the geographically south or the vertex of the North as area polygonal to each area polygonal Point;To the starting point of each area polygonal, if photovoltaic module is distributed in the east of starting point, prime direction is east, if light Components distribution is lied prostrate in the west of starting point, then prime direction is west;If starting point is located at area polygonal south, direction of cruising For north, if starting point is located at the area polygonal north, south is in direction of cruising;
Step (4), the area polygonal as step (2) determine be not unique, it is determined that the data acquisition sequence of area polygonal, it is right Each area polygonal successively executes step (5)~step (10);
Step (5) starts unmanned plane, and in NED coordinate system, the yaw angle of unmanned plane and the yaw angle of Visible Light Camera are arranged It is 0, sets unmanned plane during flying rate v0, the initial flight speed of unmanned plane is determined according to the prime direction that step (3) determine, when When inceptive direction is east, initial flight speed isWhen inceptive direction is western, initial flight speed Degree isSet dis=0;Wherein, vx、vyRespectively north, east to flying speed, dis is Unmanned plane carries out flying distance when data acquisition to every a line photovoltaic module, and n_turn is that unmanned plane turns at zone boundary Curved number and its initial value are 0;
Step (6), unmanned plane processor obtain visible light video stream, detect photovoltaic by image processing algorithm to current video frame Component, the boundary straight line for obtaining photovoltaic group string according to the slope of photovoltaic group string boundary straight line and position and combine flying height, meter Calculate the longitudinal pixel-shift amount of the orientation of photovoltaic group string and photovoltaic group string relative to video flowing central point;
The tune of holder yaw angle is calculated in step (7), the photovoltaic group string orientation and offset that are obtained according to step (6) Whole amount and speed value;
Step (8) repeats step (6), step (7) with fixed and not less than 5Hz frequency, until unmanned plane reaches region Boundary;During executing step (6), step (7), such as meet abs (dis-n*dis_photo)≤0.1, unmanned plane is visible Light camera and infrared camera acquire image data;Wherein, n is natural number, and dis_photo is between the distance of image data acquiring Every abs is to ask signed magnitude arithmetic(al);
Step (9) executes when unmanned plane reaches zone boundary and turns to strategy, dis=0, n_turn=n_turn+1;
Step (10), unmanned plane continue to execute Image Acquisition task to the photovoltaic module of current line, are determined according to step (5) first Beginning flying speed executes step (6)~step (9) until unmanned plane completes the traversal to area polygonal.
2. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that follow the following conditions when the polygon of formation zone in the step (2):
R010: if two distributed areas of photovoltaic module are connections, then it is considered as a region;
R020: on the basis of R010, the fitted polygon of each distributed areas is generated according to area minimum principle;
R030: if fitted polygon is concave polygon, seeking the external convex polygon of this concave polygon, will be external according to connectivity Convex polygon and concave polygon difference portion are divided into several non-interconnected regions;For the arbitrary region of difference portion, such as the region East and west sides intersect with concave polygon, then this concave polygon cannot function as area polygonal, and otherwise concave polygon is as region Polygon;
R040: all convex polygons all can serve as area polygonal;
R050: if concave polygon cannot function as area polygonal, needing to decompose concave polygon, until all after decomposing Polygon can act as area polygonal, and the principle of decomposition is all areas polygon North and South direction span and minimum after decomposing.
3. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that the orientation of photovoltaic group string and photovoltaic group string are calculated in the step (6) relative in video flowing Longitudinal pixel-shift amount of heart point specifically comprises the following steps:
S010: unmanned plane processor obtains visible light video frame, by color space conversion it will be seen that light video frame is transformed into HSV Space sets each channel threshold value of HSV space according to the color characteristic on photovoltaic module surface, HSV image is converted to bianry image;
S020: morphology closed operation is carried out to bianry image, is connected to the bianry image of close photovoltaic module, after being expanded Photovoltaic group string bianry image;
S030: the straight line information at photovoltaic group string edge after extension is extracted by Hough transformation, photovoltaic group string edge line segment is obtained, goes Except slope absolute value be greater than 0.8 or length be less than longest line segment half line segment, calculate residue line segment G-bar k_ave and Longitudinal pixel-shift amount pix_err of the photovoltaic group string up-and-down boundary center line relative to video flowing central point after extension;
S040: in NED coordinate system, according to unmanned plane body yaw angle θ1, holder yaw angle θ2And photovoltaic module is in unmanned plane Inclination angle theta in video frame3Determine photovoltaic group string orientation, that is, being parallel to east-west direction angle is θ=θ123It is straight Line;Wherein, θ3=arctan (k_ave).
4. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 3 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that the calculation method of holder yaw angle adjustment amount and speed value in the step (7) are as follows:
R110: according to the calculated result of step S040, the adjustment amount of unmanned machine head yaw angle is Δ θ23
R120: according to the calculated result of step S030, photovoltaic group string up-and-down boundary center line is relative to image center after extension The real offset of position is approximately d_err=pix_err/pix_height*H*tan (0.5*FOV);Wherein H is nothing The difference in height of man-machine Visible Light Camera and photovoltaic module, pix_height are video frame pixel line number, and FOV is vertical field of view angle;
R130: according to the calculated result in step R120, when unmanned plane is from western flight eastwards, speed command isWhen unmanned plane flight from east to west, speed command is Wherein,Can prevent excessive | d_err |, a, b are normal number.
5. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 3 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that unmanned plane reaches the decision condition of zone boundary in the step (8) are as follows: unmanned plane position reaches Outside area polygonal, and met according to the bianry image that step S010 is obtainedWherein, n= Pix_width*pix_height is image pixel number,The pixel number for belonging to photovoltaic module handled for step S010 Amount, xiFor bianry image pixel value, ColorThreshold is the threshold value for judging to whether there is in the visual field photovoltaic module.
6. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that the distance interval dis_photo of visible images and infrared image acquisition is not in the step (8) Together, i.e., according to Visible Light Camera and infrared camera parameter, visible images and infrared image imaging characteristics, not for the two setting Same distance interval.
7. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 5 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that turn to mainly comprising the processes of for strategy in the step (9)
S110: unmanned plane flight S on cruise direction1Distance, S1About photovoltaic group string fore-and-aft distance interval;
S120: if UAV Video frame at this time is unsatisfactory for the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), unmanned plane during flying direction with Heading when previous row photovoltaic group string image data acquiring is identical, until unmanned plane meets the zone boundary in step (8) Decision condition, starting point of the position as new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring at this time;Such as UAV Video frame at this time When meeting the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), unmanned plane during flying direction and previous row photovoltaic group string image data acquiring Heading on the contrary, until unmanned plane be just unsatisfactory for the zone boundary decision condition in step (8), position conduct at this time The starting point of new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring;
S130: after the starting point of the new a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring of determination, unmanned plane during flying direction is set as with before Heading when a line photovoltaic group string image data acquiring is on the contrary, steering procedure terminates.
8. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that obstacle avoidance module and vertical range finder module are equipped in multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, vertical range finder module is logical The lifting for crossing control unmanned plane ensures that the photovoltaic module of unmanned plane and underface keeps stable difference in height.
9. a kind of scale centralization photovoltaic plant image data based on multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle according to claim 1 is adopted Set method, which is characterized in that the Visible Light Camera and infrared camera that multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is carried are vertically downward and with three axis From steady function.
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