Development of an Automated Measurement System for Checking Irradiation Non-uniformity of Solar Simulators

Authors

  • Chen-Huei Hsieh Department of Automation Engineering & Institute of Mechatronoptic systems, Chien-kuo Technology University, Taiwan, ROC
  • Xui-Ze Zh Department of Automation Engineering & Institute of Mechatronoptic systems, Chien-kuo Technology University, Taiwan, ROC

Keywords:

solar simulator, PV cell, solar module, irradiation non-uniformity, measurement

Abstract

Generally, for some solar simulator manufactures, the measurement of irradiation non-uniformity is made by placing a PV cell artificially and point by point on each measuring point on the solar module. It records each corresponding output voltage of PV cell. It is time-consuming and easy to produce measurement error. If either an XY table or a multi-axis robot is applied in this case, it is ot only expensive but also difficult to carry and setup. Hence, an innovative and automated measurement system, which consists of both a self-developed smart robot and a monitoring and control system, is proposed in this paper to solve aforementioned problems. The monitoring and control system, i.e., constructed by a PC and a self-developed LabVIEW-based application program, plays the role of remotely commanding the operation mode of a robot, receiving the irradiance data being transmitted from the robot and calculating the irradiation non-uniformity. Once the irradiation non-uniformity is calculated, some operations are made to adjust the irradiation parameters of the solar simulator such that the irradiation non-uniformity can meet the specification, i.e., 2%, 5%, 10% for class A, B or C of solar module, respectively.

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Published

2018-07-30

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C.-H. Hsieh and X.-Z. Zh, “Development of an Automated Measurement System for Checking Irradiation Non-uniformity of Solar Simulators”, Adv. technol. innov., vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 147–156, Jul. 2018.

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Vol. 3 No. 4 (2018): October

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