Mechanism Designs for Solar Tracking

Russo, Matteo; Ceccarelli, Marco

Abstract

In this paper, mechanism design for solar trackers is discussed in terms of serial and parallel architectures that are analyzed to characterize the feasible performance of mechanism solutions that can fully track the sun during its diurnal east-to-west and seasonal north-south motions. Their main operational characteristics are discussed as design criteria and used to compare existing solutions. New mechanism designs are outlined as examples of the proposed guidelines.

• Conference Name: 1st Workshop IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals (I4SDG)
• Conference Location: Online
• Start Date: Nov 25, 2021
• End Date: Nov 26, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Sep 22, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Oct 14, 2021
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 15, 2022
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Pages: 241-249
• Series Title: Mechanisms and Machine Science
• Series Number: 108
• Series ISSN: 2211-0984
• Book Title: Proceedings of I4SDG Workshop 2021: IFToMM for Sustainable Development Goals
• ISBN: 9783030873820
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87383-7_26
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/6634950
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-87383-7_26