• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 1998년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.138-142
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• 1998

This paper has been analyzed, modeled, designed, fabricated, and tested for solar cell simulator which has solar array characteristics. The main purpose is the development of solar cell simulator to test electrical power subsystem for GEO Communication Spacecraft. The maximum power of the simulator is about 5 ㎾, which is consist of 12 independent simulator modules with 420 W power rating. The 12 simulator modules are independently controlled like as real solar array system.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2018

A solar array simulator (SAS) consists of an engine that generates a setpoint according to panel characteristics, a power stage that provides the actual output, and a controller. Particularly, if the control method is not suitable due to the nonlinearity of the solar panel output curve depending on the irradiation amount and the temperature, and the variation of the curve factor depending on the various panel materials, then the panel simulation function cannot be performed properly. Current and voltage mode controls are usually used for the conventional control method. However, these control methods deteriorate the control performance near the maximum power point; thus, a hybrid control method using two or more controllers has been investigated. In this study, we analyze the hybrid control method using three controllers divided into different areas. The design equation of the controller is derived based on the small signal modeling of each controller, and the simulation performance of the solar array simulator verifies its stability and response speed.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.16-24
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• 2021

Solar array simulator (SAS) is essential equipment in testing and evaluating the power processing performance of a power conditioning system. However, the nonlinearity in the current(I)-voltage(V) characteristic makes the control loop design of SAS a challenging task. Conventionally, only the inner loop is usually considered in the control design approach. However, this study proves that the reference generation loop also interacts with the inner loop and plays a key role in the overall performance of the SAS. In this paper, the performance of voltage-mode control and impedance control, which are two of the most popular architectures for the SAS system, are reviewed and compared by multi-loop analysis.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.176-184
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• 2010

지구 저궤도 위성의 임무 운용 시 전력 시스템을 안전하고 운용하고 에너지 균형을 만족하는 임무를 설계하기 위해 계획된 임무에 대한 전력 파라미터를 예측해야 한다. 이 논문에서는 다양한 미션 프로파일에 대해 위성의 생성 전력, 소모 전력, 배터리 방전 정도(Depth of Discharge, 이하 DoD), 버스 전압, 충/방전 전류 등을 예측함으로써 미션의 유효성 및 에너지 균형을 검증하기 위한 전력 시뮬레이터를 제안한다. 제안된 전력 시뮬레이터에는 인공위성의 생성 전력을 모사하기 위해 태양전지판(Solar Array, 이하 SA)의 모델, SAR (Solar Array Regulator)의 3가지 동작 모드를 구현하였다. 또한 소모 전력을 모사하기 위해 버스 및 탑재체의 각 유닛 별 소모 전력, Unit on/off configuration, 탑재체 운용 모드 등을 고려하였다. 버스 전압 및 충/방전 전류를 예측하기 위해 배터리 및 주변 회로를 모델링하고 임의의 DoD, 충방전 전류에 대해 배터리 전압 및 버스 전압을 예측한다. 구현된 전력 시뮬레이터를 이용해 에너지 균형을 분석하고 임무 계획의 적합성을 쉽게 판단할 수 있다.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2002년도 전력전자학술대회 논문집
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• pp.681-684
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• 2002

In this paper, electrical power subsystem(EPS) simulator for KOMPSAT 2 has been analyzed designed and simulated by object oriented design(OOP) method. To design EPS simulator, the EPS modules, which modeled solar array, solar array regulator, deployment device controller, battery, power control unit, and EPS control unit, are modeled. To verify the EPS simulator, the modules has been simulated. By OOP designs, the EPS simulator is very powerful because this method is applicable to design other EPS simulator.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2020

A solar array simulator is a special power supply that regulates the output voltage and current to simulate the characteristics of a photovoltaic panel. The operating point of the panel is difficult to control with a single controller because of the non-linearity of the output curve, which is determined by the amount of irradiation, temperature, and panel material. In the conventional method, the output curve is divided into sections through the current and the voltage mode controls. It reduces the overall performance of the system due to the interchanging control mode. By using the single mode controller, the noise interference of the measured value and the stability of the control around the maximum power point were demonstrated. To solve these issues, this study proposes a new unified controller. The stability of the controller was analyzed along with operating principles, and performance improvement was experimentally verified.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.103-106
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• 2009

In this paper, the implemented photovoltaic array simulator is the power supply based on a common photovoltaic characteristic. This simulator is consisted of a common DC power supply and PC for controlling output. User can select the number of PV modules and solar radiation energy and then can get output whatever user wants. This simulator is a very helpful system to PV generating test and unexpensive than the existing PV simulators.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권3호
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• pp.193-201
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• 1996

The space power system for communication satellite which employs the direct energy transfer (DET) method consists of solar array, battry, shunt regulator, charger/discharger and power control unit (PCU). In this paper, the development of the DET power system charger/discharger unit and a microprocessor based PCU is developed for simplicity and flexiblity in the modificatin of control algorithm. A 28V bus voltage, 400W power rting power simulator is built and tested to verify the operation of the simulator at each mode and the stability of mode transition is analyzed.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.8-13
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• 2009

In this paper, two configurations of PV array are analyzed and tested under shading condition, where two configurations are series-parallel and total-crass-tied configuration. Each photovoltaic module is emulated by two 5 inch po1y-crystalline cells in series and an array is constructed by connecting 24 of the modules to compare a generated maximum power of the two configurations. Pspice and Sun simulator. PASAN IIIb, are used for simulation and experiment to test the array under various partial shading conditions. Test results show the total-cross-tied configuration generates 7.63% higher maximum power than the series-parallel configuration, and it is well matched to the analysis and simulations of the two configurations.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2018년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.126-128
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• 2018

Solar array simulator (SAS) is a special DC power supply that regulates the output voltage or current to emulate characteristics of photovoltaic (PV) panels. Especially, the control of SAS is a challenging task due to the nonlinearity in the output curve, which is dependent on irradiance as well as temperature and is determined by panel materials. Conventionally, both current-mode control and voltage-mode control should be alternated by partitioning the operating curve into multiple sections, which is not only for the measurement noise problem with the feedback sensing but also for the control stability issue near the maximum power point. However, the occurrence of transition among different controllers may deteriorate the overall performance. To eliminate the mode transitions, a novel single controller scheme has been introduced in this paper, where the reference operating projection technique enables simple, smooth and numerically stable control. Theoretical consideration on the loop stability issue is discussed and the performance is verified experimentally for the emulation of a PV panel data in view of stability and response speed.