Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers (한국기계가공학회지)

The Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers (한국기계가공학회)
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Development and Evaluation of 1 Layer Polar Motion Control System for Solar Tracker

태양광 추적장치용 1층 구조의 극좌표 운동기구 개발 및 평가

  • 김선호 (동의대학교 메카트로닉스공학과) ;
  • 김병철 ((주)한국에이비이엠건설)
  • Received : 2010.01.07
  • Accepted : 2010.01.16
  • Published : 2010.02.28
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Abstract

Finding sufficient supplies of clean energy for future is one of the society's most important challenges according to technologies. Alternative renewable energy source such as sun energy can be substituted for exceeding human energy need. The main factor affect to solar performance is a collective intensity. To enhance intensity, suitable equipment is a solar tracker. This paper presents design and evaluation of 1 layer polar motion control system for solar tracker suitable for building integrated system. To evaluation of tracking accuracy and adaptability, solar tracker with 64 links is implemented. In experimental results, the accuracy of tracking has under ${\pm}0.0287^{\circ}$ and the thickness has under 140mm.

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