Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Photovoltaic Research and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The aim and scope of this Special Issue titled “Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Photovoltaic Research and Applications” are to present the recent developments in machine learning models applied to photovoltaic life stages: materials, manufacturing, field operation, maintenance, forecasting and recycling. The models should be validated on real-world data typically collected from photovoltaic materials, devices and systems including time-series data, current–voltage characteristic curves, geospatial data, sequential data, infrared images, electroluminescence images, photoluminescence images, ultraviolet fluorescence images, operation and maintenance records or any other data associated with photovoltaic materials, cost, performance, reliability, degradation, failure or weather. The model objectives of particular interest include object detection, instance segmentation, classification, imputation, prediction, clustering, anomaly detection, generation and noise reduction. We encourage you to share your datasets with the research community.

This Special Issue is open to both original research articles covering progress in machine learning techniques and architectures including but not limited to the following:

• Linear models;
• Clustering models;
• Decision tree models;
• Dimensionality reduction models;
• Deep learning models;
• Computer vision models;
• Physics-based models.
• Generative models;
• Transformer models;
• Natural language processing models;
• Ensemble models;
• Foundation models.

Dr. Hubert Seigneur
Dr. Kristopher Davis
Guest Editors

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• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• photovoltaics
• solar cells
• solar panels
• faults
• anomaly
• degradation. failure
• time series
• current–voltage curves
• geospatial location
• infrared images
• electroluminescence images
• photoluminescence images
• ultraviolet fluorescence images
• material characterization