Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm

ABSTRACT In the field of power equipment inspection, the aging condition of composite insulators is often determined by the detection of water repellency. However, the existing detection methods are difficult to effectively extract the water repellency level features in the complex background, and i...

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Main Authors: Shaotong Pei, Weiqi Wang, Chenlong Hu, Haichao Sun, Keyu Li, Mianxiao Wu, Bo Lan
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author Shaotong Pei
Weiqi Wang
Chenlong Hu
Haichao Sun
Keyu Li
Mianxiao Wu
Bo Lan
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Chenlong Hu
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Bo Lan
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description ABSTRACT In the field of power equipment inspection, the aging condition of composite insulators is often determined by the detection of water repellency. However, the existing detection methods are difficult to effectively extract the water repellency level features in the complex background, and it is difficult to meet the real‐time requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes a MDC‐YOLO algorithm for water repellency detection and classification of composite insulators. The algorithm effectively combines the efficient convolutional network (EfficientNetV2), the deformable attention mechanism (DAttention), and the lightweight convolution (CSPPC), which significantly realizes the lightweight of the network, and at the same time improves the accuracy of the algorithm for the composite insulator umbrella skirt identification, water repellency class classification. Experimentally verified, the multilayer detection and classification YOLO algorithm of water repellency of composite insulators proposed in this paper, i.e., MDC‐YOLO algorithm, improves the detection accuracy of umbrella skirt by 5.19% and reduces the GFLOPs to 3.5, and improves the Top‐1 accuracy of water repellency grade classification by 4.654% and reduces the GFLOPs by 1.1. The results of the present research can be widely applied to The results of this study can be widely used in the fields of power equipment inspection, smart grid construction and insulator aging state assessment, which provides strong support for the technical development of related fields. It meets the requirements of hydrophobicity detection and classification of composite insulators, and proves the effectiveness and superiority of the algorithm proposed in this paper through ablation and comparison tests.
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spelling doaj-art-18c16a331de54a169a07fafa7c34c2562025-08-20T02:09:00ZengWileyEnergy Science & Engineering2050-05052025-06-011363360337010.1002/ese3.70107Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO AlgorithmShaotong Pei0Weiqi Wang1Chenlong Hu2Haichao Sun3Keyu Li4Mianxiao Wu5Bo Lan6Department of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering North China Electric Power University Baoding City Hebei Province People's Republic of ChinaABSTRACT In the field of power equipment inspection, the aging condition of composite insulators is often determined by the detection of water repellency. However, the existing detection methods are difficult to effectively extract the water repellency level features in the complex background, and it is difficult to meet the real‐time requirements. Therefore, this paper proposes a MDC‐YOLO algorithm for water repellency detection and classification of composite insulators. The algorithm effectively combines the efficient convolutional network (EfficientNetV2), the deformable attention mechanism (DAttention), and the lightweight convolution (CSPPC), which significantly realizes the lightweight of the network, and at the same time improves the accuracy of the algorithm for the composite insulator umbrella skirt identification, water repellency class classification. Experimentally verified, the multilayer detection and classification YOLO algorithm of water repellency of composite insulators proposed in this paper, i.e., MDC‐YOLO algorithm, improves the detection accuracy of umbrella skirt by 5.19% and reduces the GFLOPs to 3.5, and improves the Top‐1 accuracy of water repellency grade classification by 4.654% and reduces the GFLOPs by 1.1. The results of the present research can be widely applied to The results of this study can be widely used in the fields of power equipment inspection, smart grid construction and insulator aging state assessment, which provides strong support for the technical development of related fields. It meets the requirements of hydrophobicity detection and classification of composite insulators, and proves the effectiveness and superiority of the algorithm proposed in this paper through ablation and comparison tests.https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.70107composite insulatordefect detectionhydrophobicityYOLOv8
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Bo Lan
Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
Energy Science & Engineering
composite insulator
defect detection
hydrophobicity
YOLOv8
title Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
title_full Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
title_fullStr Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
title_short Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm
title_sort detection of hydrophobicity grade of composite insulators based on mdc yolo algorithm
topic composite insulator
defect detection
hydrophobicity
YOLOv8
url https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.70107
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