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Development and Evaluation of 1 Layer Polar Motion Control System for Solar Tracker  

Kim, Sun Ho (동의대학교 메카트로닉스공학과)
Kim, Byung Cheol ((주)한국에이비이엠건설)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers / v.9, no.1, 2010 , pp. 67-73 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Solar Tracker; 1 Layer Motion Control; Building Integrated System;
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