Title :
Solar cell efficiency improvement using compound parabolic concentrator and an implementation of sun tracking system
Author :
Hossain, Eklas ; Muhida, Riza ; Dzulkipli, Ahmad Faris ; Rahman, K.A.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mchatronics Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Jalan Gombak
Abstract :
This paper presents how the efficiency of solar cell can be increased with the design of compound parabolic concentrator and the implementation of sun tracking system. Sun tracking systems is an application of the machine vision (MV) and collaboration with data acquisition (DAQ) to systems by using a Web camera as a sensor and sound card as an output channel to drive a motor. The motors react as the mechanism of the camera to make sure it always focuses on the target of sun. By using a MatLab software programming environment, closes loop control is implemented to provide interaction between camera and sound card as a device to control the motor to track the sun.
Keywords :
closed loop systems; computer vision; control engineering computing; data acquisition; power engineering computing; solar cells; MatLab software programming environment; Web camera; closes loop control; compound parabolic concentrator; data acquisition; machine vision; solar cell efficiency improvement; sun tracking system; Acoustic sensors; Cameras; Collaboration; Data acquisition; Machine vision; Photovoltaic cells; Programming environments; Sensor systems and applications; Sun; Target tracking; Solar cell; close loop control; concentrator; machine vision; sun tracking;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2008. ICCIT 2008. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Khulna
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2135-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2136-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICCITECHN.2008.4803090
