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Modeling of Heliostat Sun Tracking Error Using Multilayered Neural Network Trained by the Extended Kalman Filter

확장칼만필터에 의하여 학습된 다층뉴럴네트워크를 이용한 헬리오스타트 태양추적오차의 모델링

  • 이상은 (서울산업대학교 제어계측공학과) ;
  • 박영칠 (서울산업대학교 제어계측공학과)
  • Received : 2010.04.13
  • Accepted : 2010.05.20
  • Published : 2010.07.01
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Abstract

Heliostat, as a concentrator reflecting the incident solar energy to the receiver located at the tower, is the most important system in the tower-type solar thermal power plant, since it determines the efficiency and performance of solar thermal plower plant. Thus, a good sun tracking ability as well as its good optical property are required. In this paper, we propose a method to compensate the heliostat sun tracking error. We first model the sun tracking error, which could be measured using BCS (Beam Characterization System), by multilayered neural network. Then the extended Kalman filter was employed to train the neural network. Finally the model is used to compensate the sun tracking errors. Simulated result shows that the method proposed in this paper improve the heliostat sun tracking performance dramatically. It also shows that the training of neural network by the extended Kalman filter provides faster convergence property, more accurate estimation and higher measurement noise rejection ability compared with the other training methods like gradient descent method.

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