International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)
Vol 12, No 3: September 2021

Soft computing and IoT based solar tracker

Kanhaiya Kumar (Galgotias University)
Lokesh Varshney (Galgotias University)
A. Ambikapathy (Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology)
Vrinda Mittal (Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology)
Sachin Prakash (Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology)
Prashant Chandra (Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology)
Namya Khan (Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2021

Abstract

The significance of the solar energy is to intensify the effectiveness of the Solar Panel with the use of a primordial solar tracking system. Here we propounded a solar positioning system with the use of the global positioning system (GPS) , artificial neural network (ANN) and image processing (IP) . The azimuth angle of the sun is evaluated using GPS which provide latitude, date, longitude and time. The image processing used to find sun image through which centroid of sun is calculated and finally by comparing the centroid of sun with GPS quadrate to achieve optimum tracking point. Weather conditions and situation observed through AI decision making with the help of IP algorithms. The presented advance adaptation is analyzed and established via experimental effects which might be made available on the memory of the cloud carrier for systematization. The proposed system improve power gain by 59.21% and 10.32% compare to stable system (SS) and two-axis solar following system (TASF) respectively. The reduced tracking error of IoT based Two-axis solar following system (IoT-TASF) reduces their azimuth angle error by 0.20 degree.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJPEDS

Publisher

Subject

Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS, ISSN: 2088-8694, a SCOPUS indexed Journal) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The scope of the journal includes all issues in the field of Power Electronics and drive systems. ...