Developing a multipurpose sun tracking system using fuzzy control

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 46, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 1229-1245

  Alata, Mohanad ^a   Al Nimr, M A ^a   Qaroush, Yousef ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy control; Subtractive clustering; Sugeno model; Sun tracking systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FUZZY CONTROL; SPACE HEATING; SUN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOBTRACTIVE CLUSTERING; SUGENO MODEL; SUN TRACKING SYSTEM;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 10844238812     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2004.06.013     Document Type: Article

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