Experimental investigation and construction of PV solar tracker control system using image processing

Modern Applied Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 237-244

  Taki, Morteza ^a   Ajabshirchi, Yahya ^a   Behfar, Hossein ^a   Taki, Mohsen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b Dept of HESA office ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

Picture processing; Renewable energy; Solar panel; Two axis sun tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856305974     PISSN: 19131844     EISSN: 19131852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/mas.v5n6p237     Document Type: Article

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