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1st International round robin on EL imaging: automated camera calibration and image normalisation

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posted on 2018-10-30, 15:43 authored by Karl G. Bedrich, Jing Chai, Yan Wang, Armin G. Aderle, Martin BlissMartin Bliss, Matevz Bokalic, Bernd Doll, Marc Kontges, Alexandra Huss, Juan Lopez-Garcia, Yong Sheng Khoo
Results from the first international Round Robin on electroluminescence (EL) imaging of PV devices are presented. 17 Laboratories across Europe, Asia and the US measured EL images of ten commercially available modules and five single-cell modules. This work presents a novel automated camera calibration and image scaling routine. Its performance is quantified through comparing intensity deviation of corrected images and their cell average. While manual calibration includes additional measurement of lens distortion and flat field, the automated calibration extracts camera calibration parameters (here: lens distortion, and vignetting) exclusively from EL images. Although it is shown that the presented automated calibration outperforms the manual one, the method proposed in this work uses both manual and automated calibration. 501 images from 24 cameras are corrected. Intensity deviation of cell averages of every measured device decreased from 10.3 % (results submitted by contributing labs) to 2.8 % (proposed method), For three images the image correction produced insufficient results and vignetting correction failed for one camera, known of having a non-linear camera sensor. Surprisingly, largest image quality improvements are achieved by spatially precise image alignment of the same device and not by correcting for vignetting and lens distortion. This is due to overall small lens distortion and the circumstance that, although vignetting caused intensity reduction of more than 50%, PV devices are generally positioned in the image centre in which vignetting distortion is lowest.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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36th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition

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BEDRICH, K.G. ... et al., 2018. 1st International round robin on EL imaging: automated camera calibration and image normalisation. Proceedings of the 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 35), Brussels, Belgium, 24 - 28 Sept, pp.1049-1056.

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WIP

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2018-09-28

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2018

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This is a conference paper.

ISBN

3936338507

ISSN

2196-100X

Language

  • en

Location

Brussels, Belgium

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