Increasing the efficiency of solar trackers by honey bee optimization algorithm

Subject Areas : Information Technology in Engineering Design (ITED) Journal

Hadieh Sadat Hosseini ¹ (cDepartment of Engineering, Aliabad Katoul Branch Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran)
Amangaldi Koochaki ² (Department of engineering, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran)
Masood Radmehr ³ (cDepartment of Engineering, Aliabad Katoul Branch Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran)

Received: 2017-06-20 Accepted : 2017-06-20 Published : 2015-02-20

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Abstract :

Most of Control systems that often used in solar trackers, use signals from the solar radiation sensorwere placed on photovoltaic panels and control mutation of panel’s motors. Since, Sun information islimited and real time measurement is difficult, the solar tracking algorithms developed withoutadditional hardware and sensors. This paper presents a method for determining the tilt and azimuthangle trajectories based on Bee Optimization Algorithm for PVs in order to achieve maximum outputenergy. Open-loop two axis sun tracking system is considered. The results show an increasing inenergy obtained by BA compared with Differential Evolution algorithm.