Surface Damage Detection of Wind Turbine Blades Based on WTB-YOLO
摘要
Accurate damage detection on wind turbine blades is critical for the expanding wind power industry. This study proposes WTB-YOLO, a lightweight, high-precision object detection model specifically designed for blade damage detection. The model integrates FasterNet for efficient compression, incorporates a Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network to enhance small damage detection, introduces a C3k2_RCM module for optimized feature utilization, and employs Wise-IoU for improved localization accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate WTB-YOLO’s superior performance with mAP@0.5 and mAP@0.5:0.95 scores of 98.0% and 76.3%, significantly outperforming YOLO11s (96.8% and 69.2%) and other state-of-the-art methods. This approach provides an effective solution for ensuring safe wind turbine operation and maintenance.