Solar Glider

"A drone based solar pannel cleaning system"

The Actual Problem

The solar panels uses sunlight to produce electricity. Due to some human and natural activities the solar pannel are getting dirt on their surface which block the sunlight and thereby reducing the power generation

Explanation about the problem

Major reasons for the dirt

Dust
Bird Droppings
Tree Debris
Pollution

Consequences

Lower efficiency
Low power
Surface damage

Existing Methods of cleaning

Manual Cleaning
Mechanical Cleaning

Our Solution to the Problem

Solar Glider

"A drone based solar pannel cleaning system"

The drone that flies over the solar panels captures the image of the solar panels and its cells. It reads the image captured by the overhead camera and processes it using the techniques of Computer Vision. It finds and estimates the dust layer on the panel surface and finaly cleans it with the brush. This solutions help us to clean the solar panel

Technologies Used

Embedded C Programming
Python Programming
Yolo V5
Extended Kalman Filters
ROS
RTOS
Mavlink