Optical wireless power transfer (OWPT) is a technology that wirelessly transmit light energy from an optical transmitter to an optical receiver, usually a solar cell. In order to achieve the highest transmission efficiency, the solar cell receiver should be accurately aligned with the optical transmitter. Hitherto, only a few works have been existed for solar cell recognition in presence of complex backgrounds. In this paper, we employ a deep learning approach based on Yolov5-Lite for the solar cell recognition purpose, due to its lightweight, fast and easy to deploy on hardware characteristics. Our tests show a high accuracy of the employed deep learning model with the highest F1 score of 91% and mAP of 94.8%. Therefore, this deep learning model is highly promising for use in OWPT systems to precisely align optical transmitters and solar cell receivers.
@article{arxiv.2410.14096,
title = {Deep Learning Based Solar Cell Recognition for Optical Wireless Power Transfer},
author = {Sida Huang and Yuanting Wu and Dinh Hoa Nguyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.14096},
year = {2024}
}
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In Proceedings of The International Council on Electrical Engineering (ICEE) Conference 2024