Authors :
Trina Som; Saksham Jain
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 12 - December
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7480818
Abstract :
A hardware model of a solar tracker has been
developed to explore different technical and
environmental aspects to generate maximum power. The
proposed model consists of a dual-axis structure, whose
operation is based on maximum solar irradiance for a
specific location. Three modes of operation differing in
the degree of freedom of axes movement were tested using
two distinct control strategies. Further, different tilt
angles were considered for this study. The software
platform used to operate the hardware model is Arduino
Pro Mini. To analyse the effect of the above approaches
on the output voltage and to further assess the
implications on the all-day efficiency and cost, an in-house
computer code written in the C programming language is
used as the basic controller. The code interfaced with
Arduino UNO.
Keywords :
Solar tracker; Fabrication; Optimization, Precise Position Algorithm.
A hardware model of a solar tracker has been
developed to explore different technical and
environmental aspects to generate maximum power. The
proposed model consists of a dual-axis structure, whose
operation is based on maximum solar irradiance for a
specific location. Three modes of operation differing in
the degree of freedom of axes movement were tested using
two distinct control strategies. Further, different tilt
angles were considered for this study. The software
platform used to operate the hardware model is Arduino
Pro Mini. To analyse the effect of the above approaches
on the output voltage and to further assess the
implications on the all-day efficiency and cost, an in-house
computer code written in the C programming language is
used as the basic controller. The code interfaced with
Arduino UNO.
Keywords :
Solar tracker; Fabrication; Optimization, Precise Position Algorithm.
