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Design of the Unmanned Solar Vehicle with Quick Response of Maximum Power Point Tracking

최대 전력점 추종의 속응성을 고려한 무인 태양광 자동차 시스템 설계

  • Shin, Yesl (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Ajou University) ;
  • Lee, Kyo-Beum (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Ajou University) ;
  • Jeon, Yong-Ho (Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Ajou University) ;
  • Song, Bong-Sob (Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Ajou University)
  • Received : 2013.02.20
  • Accepted : 2013.04.16
  • Published : 2013.08.20
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Abstract

This paper proposes an improved Maximum Power Point Tracking method and design methods of unmanned solar vehicle system by parts of hardware, unmanned driving control and power conversion. The hardware design is offered on the weight reduction and structural reliability by using structural analysis software. The technique of curve fitting is applied to unmanned control system due to minimizing the vehicle's behavior. Furthermore, lateral controller applying actuator dynamics is robust enough to prevent performance degradation by measurement noise regarding position and heading angle. The power conversion system contains battery charger system and tapped-inductor boost converter. In the battery charger system, variable step-size MPPT is conducted for quick response of maximum power point tracking. The validity of the proposed algorithm are verified by simulations and experiments.

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