• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제38권10호
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• pp.1310-1317
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• 2014

In our daily life, the need of energy increases day by day. However, the amount of natural resources on the earth is limited and thus gaining renewable energy as an energy resource is one of the important and urgent problems. Solar energy is one of the most popular available energy sources that can be converted into electricity by using solar panels. In order for solar panels to produce maximal output power, the incident angle of the sunlight needs to be persistently perpendicular to the solar panel. By the way, most of the solar panels are installed at fixed position and direction. Therefore, as the sun's position changes, it is impossible to produce maximal output power inevitably. To improve this problem, in this paper, a sun tracking system using two degree-of-freedom (DOF) active sensor array is proposed so that the solar panel may always direct sunlight perpendicularly. And also a series of software, such as a search mode and a holding mode, which can control the developed sun tracking system is developed. Several experiments using the implemented sun tracking system are executed and the effectiveness of the system is verified from the experimental results.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2011

Sun tracking system is the most important subsystem in parabolic dish type solar thermal power plant, since it determines the amount of thermal energy to be collected, thus affects the efficiency of solar thermal power plant most significantly. Various types of sun tracking systems are currently used. Among them, use of photo sensors to located the sun(which is called sensor type) and use of astronomical algorithm to compute the sun position(which is called program type) are two of the mostly used methods. Recently some uses CCD sensor, like CCD camera, which is called image processing type sun tracking system. This work is concerned with the analysis of sun tracking performance of various types of sun tracking systems currently used in the parabolic dish type solar thermal power plant. We first developed a sun tracking error measurement system. Then, we evaluate the performance of five different types of sun tracking systems, sensor type, program type, hybrid type(use of sensor and computed sun position simultaneously), tracking error compensated program type and image processing type. Experimentally obtained data shows that the tracking error compensated program type sun tracking system is very effective and could provide a good sun tracking performance. Also the data obtained shows that the performance of sensor type sun tracking system is being affected by the cloud significantly, while the performance of a program type sun tracking system is being affected by the sun tracking system's mechanical and installation errors very much. Finally image processing type sun tracking system can provide accurate sun tracking performance, but costs more and requires more computational time.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.460-465
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• 2007

본 논문은 과학기술위성2호 핵심우주기술시험용 탑재체 중 하나인 정밀디지털 태양센서(FDSS)의 개발에 관한 것이다. 정밀 디지털 태양센서는 국내에서 CMOS-Image sensor(CIS)를 이용한 최초의 디지털 태양센서로서, 성능시험과 우주환경시험을 거쳐 비행모델 개발이 완료되었다. 본 논문은 FDSS 구성과 광학부 설계결과 및 태양광의 광학적 특성 분석결과, 그리고 Solar simulator를 이용한 보정결과 관하여 기술한다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2020

무선 센서 네트워크(WSN)는 제한된 배터리 자원으로 인해 수명이 짧다는 근본적인 문제뿐 아니라, 고정된 위치의 싱크로 인한 싱크 주변 노드의 에너지 소비가 비정상적으로 증가하는 에너지 불균형 문제도 가지고 있다. 이를 해결하고자, 최근에는 태양 에너지 수집형 노드를 사용하여 에너지를 지속적으로 수집함으로써 배터리 자원 제약 문제를 해결하고, 또한 모바일 싱크를 활용하여 고정된 싱크 노드 근처의 에너지 불균형 문제를 해결하려는 연구들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 기존의 고정된 싱크 및 배터리 기반의 WSN을 위하여 제안된 유명한 데이터 수집 기법인 CTP(Collection Tree Protocol)도 이와 같은 에너지 제약 및 에너지 사용 불균형 문제는 고려하지 않고 설계되었는데, 따라서 정전 노드 발생 및 트리 구조의 루프화와 같은 네트워크의 안정성(Reliablilty)이 심각하게 저하되는 문제를 내포하고 있었다. 이를 해결하고자, 본 논문에서는 모바일 싱크와 태양에너지 수집형 노드로 구성된 WSN을 위한 향상된 CTP 기법(Solar-CTP)을 제안한다. 제안된 Solar-CTP기법에서는 수집 에너지 및 사용 에너지양 예측을 통해 노드 동작 모드를 결정한다. 아울러 싱크의 주기적인 이동으로 싱크 주변 노드의 에너지 불균형 문제를 해결한다. 성능검증을 통해 기존 CTP에 비해 Solar-CTP의 정전 노드의 수가 줄어들고, 싱크의 데이터 수집량이 향상된 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권9호
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• pp.33-40
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a sink-location management and data-routing scheme to effectively support the mobile sink in solar-powered WSN. Battery-based wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have a limited lifetime due to their limited energy, but solar energy-based WSNs can be supplied with energy periodically and can operate forever. On the other hand, introduction of mobile sink in WSNs can solve some energy unbalance problem between sink-neighboring nodes and outer nodes which is one of the major challenges in WSNs. However, there is a problem that additional energy should be consumed to notify each sensor node of the location of the randomly moving mobile sink. In the proposed scheme, one of the nodes that harvests enough energy in each cluster are selected as the cluster head, and the location information of the mobile sink is shared only among the cluster heads, thereby reducing the location management overhead. In addition, the overhead for setting the routing path can be removed by transferring data in the opposite direction to the path where the sink-position information is transferred among the heads. Lastly, the access node is introduced to transmit data to the sink more reliably when the sink moves frequently.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2017년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.450-453
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• 2017

본 논문은 FPGA를 이용해서 태양을 추적하는 시스템에 대해서 소개한다. 센서를 이용한 추적방법과 태양의 고도를 프로그래밍하여 추적하는 방법을 혼합한 방식인 혼합식 태양 추적 방식을 이용한다. 본 논문에서의 센서는 이미지센서, 광센서를 사용하고 시간에 따라 태양의 고도를 프로그래밍하고 동작 시간은 컴퓨터에서 하이퍼터미널을 통한 무선통신을 통해서 수신한다. 비교적 개발비용이 저렴하고 업데이트 가능한 FPGA를 사용하고, 양방향 추적식 및 혼합추적법을 사용하여 최대한의 에너지 발전효율을 갖는 태양추적시스템을 제안한다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.371-374
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 빛 에너지 하베스팅을 이용한 센서 노드 회로를 제안한다. 솔라셀에서 변환된 에너지는 PMU(Power Management Unit)를 통해 관리되고, 일정한 전압을 공급하기 위해 LDO(Low Drop Out Regulator)를 사용한다. LDO를 통해 공급된 전압으로 온도센서와 SAR ADC(Successive Approximate Register Analog-to-Digital Converter)를 구동시킨다. 이 회로는 0.35um CMOS 공정으로 설계되었다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.352-361
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• 2018

Purpose: The objective of this study was to develop a multilayer perceptron (MLP) model to estimate solar radiation using a solar module. Methods: Data for the short-circuit current of a solar module and other environmental parameters were collected for a year. For MLP learning, 14,400 combinations of input variables, learning rates, activation functions, numbers of layers, and numbers of neurons were trained. The best MLP model employed the batch backpropagation algorithm with all input variables and two hidden layers. Results: The root-mean-squared error (RMSE) of each learning cycle and its average over three repetitions were calculated. The average RMSE of the best artificial neural network model was $48.13W{\cdot}m^{-2}$. This result was better than that obtained for the regression model, for which the RMSE was $66.67W{\cdot}m^{-2}$. Conclusions: It is possible to utilize a solar module as a power source and a sensor to measure solar radiation for an agricultural sensor node.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1281-1292
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• 2014

Photovoltaic (PV) solar systems with series-connected module integrated converters (MICs) are receiving increased attention because of their ability to create high output voltage while performing local maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control for individual solar panels, which is a solution for partial shading effects in PV systems at panel level. To eliminate the partial shading effects in PV system more effectively, sub-MICs are utilized at the cell level or grouped cell level within a PV solar panel. This study presents the results of a series-output-connection MPPT (SOC-MPPT) controller for sub-MIC architecture using a single sensor at the output and a single digital MPPT controller (sub-MIC SOC-MPPT controller and architecture). The sub-MIC SOC-MPPT controller and architecture are investigated based on boost type sub-MICs. Experimental results under steady-state and transient conditions are presented to verify the performance of the controller and the effectiveness of the architecture.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.929-938
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• 2015

Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and battery charging control are two important functions for a solar battery charger. The former improves utilization of the available solar energy, while the latter ensures a prolonged battery life. Nevertheless, complete implementation of both functions can be complex and costly, especially for low voltage application such as standalone street lamps. In this paper, the operation of a solar battery charger for standalone street light systems is investigated. Using only one voltage sensor, the solar charger is able to operate in both MPPT and constant voltage (CV) charging mode, hence providing high performance at a low cost. Using a lab prototype and a solar simulator, the operation of the charger system is demonstrated and its performance under varying irradiance is validated.