Felix, Agbetuyi and Olawale, Fagbuaro and Oluranti, Agbetuyi and Olaoluwa, Babasanmi (2022) Design and Implementation of an Arduino-Baseddual Axissolar Tracking System. American Journal of Engineering Research (AJER), 11 (3). pp. 33-40. ISSN 2320-0847
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Solar energy has become a very important source of renewable energy in a world that the demand for energy keeps on growing and fossil fuel is damaging the ecosystem. Solar trackers continuously change orientation throughout the day so as to stay aligned to the sunlight since the position of the sun in the sky changes with the time of the day. This is expected toincrease the amount of energy captured by the solar panel. A prototype of an Arduino based dual axis Solar tracking System was designed and implemented in this paper. The project work has two parts; hardware & software. The hardware involves ATmega328p microcontroller controlling two servo motors to move the solar tracker with the use of Light Dependent Resistors (LDRs) as sensors for sunlight. The software part involves programming the microcontroller.The output power of the panel with fixed configuration has been compared with that of tracking configuration. The results show an increase of 23.53% efficiency in the power captured by dual axis configuration.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Solar tracker, Solar Energy,Arduino,Microcontroller,Dual-axis |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science |
| Depositing User: | nwokealisi |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2024 10:47 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2024 10:47 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/18595 |
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