Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Image Recognition Algorithm

With increasing operation time of wind turbine, wind blade may be damaged by lightning strike, salt spray corrosion, high wind etc. These may lead to blade crack or blade damage. Some measures should be taken to fix these damages in time. If these damages become worse, the blade may drop from wind turbine. It is possible to cause wind turbine fallen and other serious accident. The traditional manual inspection method involves climbing the wind turbine or using binoculars to observe, which has low efficiency, high cost, and high risks to personnel. This paper introduces a new method using UAV to do wind turbine inspection.