WANG Hong-rui, WANG Yu-peng, FANG Wei. Intelligent solar tracker with double modes[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2011,19(7): 1605-1611
WANG Hong-rui, WANG Yu-peng, FANG Wei. Intelligent solar tracker with double modes[J]. Editorial Office of Optics and Precision Engineering, 2011,19(7): 1605-1611 DOI: 10.3788/OPE.20111907.1605.
A solar tracker with intelligent switching ability of working modes is constructed to improve its performance and reliability under several weather conditions.How to choose a proper work mode of the solar tracker is investigated
and the switching method of working mode for the solar tracker is also proposed. The solar tracker has two working modes
open loop mode and closed loop one
and it consists of an imaging unit
a turntable
steppers
the subsystem of micro control unit
a computer and so on. A visual servo scheme is employed for the closed loop mode
while astronomy theory is used for the open loop mode. Moreover
the sun position in the sky is obtained by astronomic algorithms in the case of open loop. The system captures the sky image through an imaging unit
and analyzes weather conditions and external environments through image processing. In experiments
the average tracking error is 0.186 5 for the zenith angle and 0.167 9 for the azimuth angle. The solar tracking experiments indicate that the solar tracker operates reliably
and is able to work under complex weather conditions.
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