• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.590-596
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• 1987

In this paper, it was studied on the design of a sun sensor which is able to sense the declinations of an azimuth angle and a zenith angle for a digital sun seeker control system so that it will seek the sun accurately. And, it was considered the construction of digital controllable algorithms through experiments. Peculiar design method of the sun sensor is that sensor box was constructed with three square silicon solar cells and that the three cells were mounted unsymmetrical forming the

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.631-642
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• 2009

The sun is a useful reference direction because of its brightness relative to other astronomical objects and its relatively small apparent radius as viewed by spacecrafts near the Earth. Most satellites use solar power as a source of energy, and so need to make sure that solar panels are oriented correctly with respect to the sun. Also, some satellites have sensitive instruments that must not be exposed to direct sunlight. For all these reasons, sun sensors are important components in spacecraft attitude determination and control systems. To minimize components and structural mass, some components have multiple purposes. The solar cells will provide power and also be used as coarse sun sensors. A coarse Sun sensor is a low-cost attitude determination sensor suitable for a wide range of space missions. The sensor measures the sun angle in two orthogonal axes. The Sun sensor measures the sun angle in both azimuth and elevation. This paper presents the development of a model to determine the attitude of a small cube-shaped satellite in space relative to the sun's direction. This sensor helps small cube-shaped Pico satellites to perform accurate attitude determination without requiring additional hardware.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.388-396
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• 2011

Sun tracking system is the most important subsystem in parabolic dish type solar thermal power plant, since it determines the amount of thermal energy to be collected, thus affects the efficiency of solar thermal power plant most significantly. Various types of sun tracking systems are currently used. Among them, use of photo sensors to located the sun(which is called sensor type) and use of astronomical algorithm to compute the sun position(which is called program type) are two of the mostly used methods. Recently some uses CCD sensor, like CCD camera, which is called image processing type sun tracking system. This work is concerned with the analysis of sun tracking performance of various types of sun tracking systems currently used in the parabolic dish type solar thermal power plant. We first developed a sun tracking error measurement system. Then, we evaluate the performance of five different types of sun tracking systems, sensor type, program type, hybrid type(use of sensor and computed sun position simultaneously), tracking error compensated program type and image processing type. Experimentally obtained data shows that the tracking error compensated program type sun tracking system is very effective and could provide a good sun tracking performance. Also the data obtained shows that the performance of sensor type sun tracking system is being affected by the cloud significantly, while the performance of a program type sun tracking system is being affected by the sun tracking system's mechanical and installation errors very much. Finally image processing type sun tracking system can provide accurate sun tracking performance, but costs more and requires more computational time.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2002년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.452-456
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• 2002

자연환경에 노출된 센서기반의 제어장치는 센서오류가 발생하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 센서의 오류 보정기능을 갖는 고정밀 태양추적장치를 개발하였다. 다항식회귀분석 (Polynomial Regression)과 주성분 분석(Principal Component Analysis)을 응용하였으며 태양추적장치의 센서를 모델링하고 자체 진단하고 복구하는 방법을 연구하였다. 시스템의 정상동작시의 센서간의 상호관계를 이용한 모델링과 센서 표본값의 주분포 모델인 PCA 모델이 이루어지면 이를 기준으로 센서의 여러 가지 오류를 점검하고 오류센서 신호를 재건을 한다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.330-332
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• 2006

In this paper, sun tracking system using Sun position sensor is proposed, the sun tracking system designed as which raises the efficiency of solar power generation. It design the structure being simple and it develops the system which is economical efficiency. It develops the hazard technique such as location tracking method of the sun which uses the sensor and to use the motor solar cell module movement. The Sun tracking system makes the drive in order to do with one axis and to use the sensor and to know in order to put out, the location of the sun and it makes. To make the solar location tracking sensor where the structure is simple it used two solar cells.

• 태양에너지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.81-91
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• 1999

The work presented here is a design and development of sun tracking system for the parabolic dish concentrator. Parabolic dish concentrator is mounted on azimuth and elevation tracking mechanism, and controlled to track the sun with computed and measured sun positions. Sun tracking mechanism is composed of 1/30000 speed reducer(3 stages) and 400W AC servomotor for each axis. The nominal tracking speed of each axis is ${\pm}0.6^{\circ}/sec$ and the system has a driving range of $340^{\circ}$ in azimuth and of $135^{\circ}$ in elevation. Sun tracking control system consists of sun sensor, wind speed and direction measurement system, AC servomotor position control system and personal computer as a master controller. Sun sensor detects the sun located within ${\pm}50^{\circ}$ measured from the sun sensor normal direction. Computer computes the sun position, sunrise and sunset times and controls the orientation of parabolic dish concentrator through the AC servomotor position control system. It also makes a decision of whether the system should follow the sun or not based on the information collected from sun sensor and wind speed and direction measurement system. The sun tracking system developed in this work is implemented for the experimental work and shows a good sun tracking performance.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.47-58
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• 2005

This paper addresses development of the ultra-light analog sun sensors for small satellite applications. The sun sensor is suitable for attitude determination for small satellite because of its small, light, low-cost, and low power consumption characteristics. The sun sensor is designed, manufactured and characteristic-tested with the target requirements of ${\pm}60^{\circ}$ FOV (Field of View) and pointing accuracy of ${\pm}2^{\circ}$. Since the sun sensor has nonlinear characteristics between output measurement voltage and incident angle of sunlight, a higher order calibration equation is required for error correction. The error was calculated by using a polynomial calibration equation that was computed by the least square method obtained from the measured voltages vs. angles characteristics. Finally, the accuracies of 1-axis and 2-axes sun sensors, which consist of 2 detectors, are compared.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제29권11호
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• pp.1159-1163
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• 2012

In this paper, we would like to introduce two dimensional non-contact position sensor by using an electromagnetic induction based coil system and an algorithm to estimate the position of pointer. The sensor which will introduce in this paper is composed of a pointer including LC resonant circuit and a sensor board to detect the electromagnetic signal from the pointer. Because of the simplicity shape of the line antenna, low cost and free form curved shape of the sensor device is possible. In this research, we proposed a new two dimensional non-contact type electromagnetic sensor system and realized the proposed sensor device. From the experiments, the proposed device can be employed for the two dimensional position sensor.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.58-65
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• 2006

Accurate and efficient monitoring of dynamically changing environments is one of the most important requirements for ubiquitous network environments. Ubiquitous computing provides intelligent environments which are aware of spatial conditions and can provide timely and useful information to users or devices. Also, the growth of embedded systems and wireless communication technology has made it possible for sensor network environments to develop on a large scale and at low-cost. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a monitoring system that collects, analyzes, and controls the status information of each sensor, following sensor data extracted from each sensor node. The monitoring system adopts Web technology for the implementation of a simple but efficient user interface that allows an operator to visualize any of the processes, elements, or related information in a convenient graphic form.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제46권7호
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• pp.551-556
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• 2018

인공위성의 자세제어를 수행하기 위해 다양한 하드웨어들이 탑재된다. 그중에서 가장 초기에 위성의 안정된 자세를 확보하며 이상동작시 안전한 자세를 확보하기 위해 사용되는 중요한 하드웨어가 바로 태양센서이다. 따라서, 위성의 개발 초기에 해당 센서의 시야각 확보를 위한 장착과 이를 이용한 자세제어 설계가 매우 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 정지궤도복합위성은 별추적기 탑재로 인해 천리안위성 대비 태양센서의 전체 수량을 축소할 수 있었다. 그리고 천리안위성의 우주이력을 이용한 여분의 하드웨어를 추가로 고려하였다. 본 논문에서는 추가된 태양센서를 통해 시야각을 확장하고 P/R-side 결선도 고려하여 안정도를 높이는 방법에 대해 분석하고 그 결과를 정리하였다.