feasibility study tractor detection

Research question / project objectives

During agricultural operations under or around wind turbines, large birds in particular are regularly attracted to the catchment area of the turbines, even from great distances.

It is therefore often technically necessary to switch off turbines at these times. Currently, the protective measure ‘shutdown during agricultural management events’ is mostly based on contracts between WTG operators and land managers and complex, often unreliable reporting chains in order to be able to shut down the WTGs during and after relevant agricultural operations.

In the foreseeable future, the demand-orientated shutdown of wind turbines during field management events within a certain radius can also be guaranteed with automatic systems. This study investigates which requirements such systems should fulfil in the future. The study considers species protection issues as well as formal authorisation issues and corresponding evidence, practical feasibility and economic aspects.

Approach

Based on the expertise of the heterogeneous project team, both in species conservation and in the application of artificial intelligence, the current state of knowledge will be analysed and supplemented by our own assessments and evaluations. In addition, two workshops will be held with experts from various fields in order to gather further knowledge and requirements from different perspectives.