With the continuous development and construction of new power systems, using drones to inspect the condition of transmission line insulators has become an inevitable trend. To facilitate the deployment of drone hardware equipment, this paper proposes IDD-YOLO (Insulator Defect Detection-YOLO), a lightweight insulator defect detection model. Initially, the backbone network of IDD-YOLO employs GhostNet for feature extraction. However, due to the limited feature extraction capability of GhostNet, we designed a lightweight attention mechanism called LCSA (Lightweight Channel-Spatial Attention), which is combined with GhostNet to capture features more comprehensively. Secondly, the neck network of IDD-YOLO utilizes PANet for feature transformation and introduces GSConv and C3Ghost convolution modules to reduce redundant parameters and lighten the network. The head network employs the YOLO detection head, incorporating the EIOU loss function and Mish activation function to optimize the speed and accuracy of insulator defect detection. Finally, the model is optimized using TensorRT and deployed on the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 NX mobile platform to test the actual inference speed of the model. The experimental results demonstrate that the model exhibits outstanding performance on both the proprietary ID-2024 insulator defect dataset and the public SFID insulator dataset. After optimization with TensorRT, the actual inference speed of the IDD-YOLO model reached 20.83 frames per second (FPS), meeting the demands for accurate and real-time inspection of insulator defects by drones.


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    Title :

    A Lightweight Insulator Defect Detection Model Based on Drone Images


    Contributors:
    Yang Lu (author) / Dahua Li (author) / Dong Li (author) / Xuan Li (author) / Qiang Gao (author) / Xiao Yu (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown





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