| Group |
2018-05 |
Status |
completed |
| Title |
Two-Degree-of-Freedom Solar Tracker |
| Supervisor |
S. Hashtrudi Zad and A. Trabelsi |
| Description |
The goal of this project is to design and build a two-degree-of-freedom solar tracker. The tracker has a PV cell to charge a battery. It has an FPGA-based control system that can adjust the orientation (azimuth and elevation) of the PV cell by sending commands to two servomotors. The tracker is in touch with a PC through a communication link. High level commands (such as “Start a full sweep”) are issued by the PC and then translated into appropriate command sequences by the tracker’s control system. The tracker design must have enough hardware redundancy to be able to recover from major faults. |
| Requirement |
Required:
COEN313 (Digital Systems Design II).
COEN317 (Microprocessor Systems).
ELEC 312 (Electronics II).
ELEC 331 (Fundamentals of Electrical Power Eng.).
Useful but not required:
Python.
ELEC473 (Renewable Energy Systems).
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| Tools |
Hardware:
FPGA Trainer Board,
Battery, PV cell, servomotors (to be purchased).
Software and online services:
FPGA Design Tools.
Programming languages:
Available in our hardware labs.
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| Number of Students |
4-5 |
| Students |
Marc-Andre Lauzier
Ahmed Al-Naseri
Philippe Abou Kasm
Matthew Timmermans
Bryan Dorais |
| Comments: |
Email: shz@ece.concordia.ca/trabelsi@ece.concordia.ca
Room: EV5.151
Tel: 848-2424 ext. 3113, ext. 3237
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