• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.124-124
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• 2017

본 연구에서 원추형 집광기와 CPV셀을 기반으로 한 태양광-열(CPV/T) 복합시스템의 설계 및 제작과정을 다룬다. 원추형 집광기의 경우, 이론적 해석을 통하여 최고의 집열효율을 갖는 원추각 45도의 집광기 4개를 결합하여 사용하였다. 원추형 복합시스템은 태양에너지를 집열하여 열에너지를 생산하는 집광기와 작동유체의 순환을 위해 이중 구조로 제작된 흡수기, 집광된 태양으로부터 전기에너지를 생산하는 CPV셀 등으로 구성되어 있다. 효율적인 태양복사열 집광을 위해 태양 위치에 따라 고도각과 방위각을 추적할 수 있는 2축 태양추적장치를 설비하였다. CPV셀은 원추형 집광기의 중심부에 위치한 이중 흡수관의 고집광부인 상단부에 위치하였으며, CPV셀의 결함을 방지하고, 부가적 태양광 집광을 위해 2차 보조 집광기를 부착하였다. 본 논문에서 소개하는 원추형 CPV/T 복합 시스템은 기존 원추형 시스템에 CPV 셀을 부착하여 전기와 열을 동시에 생산 할 수 있으며, 생산된 전기에너지와 열에너지를 이용하여 온실재배의 난방 문제, 운영비용 절약 등 다양하게 농업 분야에 적용가능하다. 특히, 원추형 복합시스템은 설계 및 제작에 있어 쉽고 간결하며, 제작 단가가 낮다는 점에서 보급에 이점이 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.392-402
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• 2020

This paper proposes a solar tracking system without photo-sensors. The system can be classified into four modules: Solar Tracking, MPPT, ESS, and Real-Time Monitoring. Nine solar panels, as a basic unit, are adopted with grid structures of different heights to reduce wind influence and to enable solar tracking without photo-sensors. The low-cost MCU implements MPPT method which generates PWM switching signal for boost converter. The unit of ESS consists of three-series and four-parallel lithium-ion batteries in order to enable monitoring for abnormalities in temperature and electrical characteristics of battery. Four MCUs used in the system consists of two AVR Atmega128, and two Raspberry PI, and they exchanges operation informations. Experimental results of the proposed system show the solar tracking performance, the possibility of on-site and remote monitoring and the convenience of maintenance based on IoT technology.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.54-63
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• 2007

This paper is proposed a novel method that computed approximately maximum power of photovoltaic system and solar tracking method. Proposed novel is linear reoriented coordinates method(LRCM), this paper is proposed new mathematical dynamic model using LRMC and DC dynamic equation. LRCM has the advantage that is decreased calculating time, decides optimal voltage and maximum power that generates continually. Furthermore solar tracking method is improved over 50[%] photovoltaic efficiency than fixed method. This paper is proposed MPPT using LRCM and solar tracking method using program method that is adequate domestic conditions, prove verify of proposed method through experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.645-652
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• 2011

The present study investigated the tracking system of a reflector to trace the movement of sun. The system was designed to minimize the error between the vertical vector of reflector and the position of sun. The proposed system was able to collect the sun lights at a point as a useful source of light energy and transmit the collected light to a remote area through optical fibers. Also the study successfully solved the controller design problem due to the complexity of modeling of the sun tracking system using a fuzzy logic controller which mimics human reasoning.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.33-38
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• 2010

Recently, photovoltaic generator system is widely extended by energy policy of the government. Add to this, high efficiency of photocell power generation is steady needed to sun tracking method. However sun tracking method is not widely extended by insufficiency of tracking technology. As method of solving this problem, this paper applied sunlight sensor and neural network control algorithm for maximum power tracking of sun photocell. Sun tracking sensor consists of one upright square pole and form light sensor of east, west, south, north on flat board. Sun tracking dual axes control is operated respectively by two motor. Motor control input is calculated by neural network control algorithm. The function of proposed control method is verified by sun tracking experiment of photocell generation. The sun tracking method of this paper is increased 32[%] efficiency more than fixed method.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.211-218
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• 2017

This paper proposes the self-powered solar tracker system without CPU. Conventional solar tracker system occurs the problem of cost and durability because of using CPU. In addition, this system has effects from installation site and environment. The proposed solar tracker system without CPU is possible to achieve the high efficiency because it tracks the maximum of the light source. The validity of proposed solar tracking system is verified with experiment results.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.481-491
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• 2014

The power production using renewable energy is more important because of a limited amount of fossil fuel and the problem of global warming. A concentrative photovoltaic system comes into the spotlight with high energy production, since the rate of power production using solar energy is proliferated. These systems, however, need to sophisticated tracking methods to give the high power production. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical tracking system using modular Bayesian networks and a naive Bayes classifier. The Bayesian networks can respond flexibly in uncertain situations and can be designed by domain knowledge even when the data are not enough. Bayesian network modules infer the weather states which are classified into nine classes. Then, naive Bayes classifier selects the most effective method considering inferred weather states and the system makes a decision using the rules. We collected real weather data for the experiments and the average accuracy of the proposed method is 93.9%. In addition, comparing the photovoltaic efficiency with the pinhole camera system results in improved performance of about 16.58%.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.353-357
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• 2011

An embedded two-axis solar tracking system was developed by using AVR micro controller for enhancing solar energy utilization. The system consists of an Atmega128 micro controller, two step motors, two step drive modules, CdS sensors, GPS module and other accessories needed for functional stability. This system is controlled by both an astronomical method and an optical method. Initial operation is performed by the result from the astronomical method, which is followed by the fine controlled operation using the signals from Cds sensors. The GPS sensor generates UTC, longitude and latitude data where the solar tracker is installed. A database of solar altitude, azimuth, and sunrise and sunset times is provided by UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter).

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.212-217
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• 2020

The PV power generation system is a comprehensive system that transmits the power generated through a PV panel to a grid connection and is composed of a solar panel, a structure, and an inverter grid connection system. One technology to increase the amount of power generated involves changing the incident angle of sunlight. This study examined the structure and control of a single-axis tracking PV system that increases the amount of power generated by changing the incident angle. The core content is a single-axis control system and technology configured to rotate the solar structure in the east-west direction around the north-south axis. A solar structure that follows the sun from sunrise to sunset in the east-west direction needs to secure structural stability and solar tracking control performance. A single-axis tracking system can generate up to 25% more power.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.143-150
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• 2003

An improved MPPT converter with current compensation method for small-scaled PV-applications is presented in this paper. The proposed method implements maximum power point tracking (MPPT) by variable reference current which is continuously changed during one sampling period. Therefore, the Power transferred to the load is increased above 9% by the proposed MPPT converter with current compensation method. As a result, the utilization efficiency of Photovoltaic (PV)-panel can be increased. In addition, as it doesn't use digital signal processor (DSP), this MPPT method has the merits of both a cost efficiency and a simple control circuit design. Therefore, it is considered that the proposed MPPT method is proper to low power, low cost PV-applications. The concept and control principles of the proposed Un moth()d are explained in detail and its validity of the proposed method is verified through several simulated results.