Open AccessA Robotic arm based automatic solar-tracking system
Author(s) -
Huimin Ju,
Shubiao Xin,
Yaoxin Shen,
Xianglong Li
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/563/3/032001
Subject(s) - economic shortage , solar energy , tracking (education) , computer science , interference (communication) , artificial intelligence , energy (signal processing) , sunlight , photoelectric sensor , tracking system , enhanced data rates for gsm evolution , computer vision , engineering , telecommunications , electrical engineering , optics , physics , psychology , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , channel (broadcasting) , quantum mechanics , government (linguistics) , kalman filter
The automatic sun-chasing panel can effectively improve the utilization of solar energy by adjusting the robotic arm that keep a right angle towards the sunlight. The new tracking system searches the position of the sun by analyzing the video stream captured by the camera and then binarization and edge detection methods are adopted to prevent the interference of other light sources. In the contemporary world with the shortage of energy resource, automatic sun-chasing panels can effectively improve the utilization of solar energy, so that the photoelectric conversion rate stays at the peak at every moment, effectively alleviating the problem of energy shortage.