solar systems | Psyops Prime https://psyopsprime.com An Idea Log Sat, 31 Dec 2016 11:43:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 99640787 Solar SImulations https://psyopsprime.com/ideas/solar-simulations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=solar-simulations https://psyopsprime.com/ideas/solar-simulations/#respond Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:20:54 +0000 http://psyopsprime.com/?p=1321 One of my much cherished research goals is to work in the area of renewable energy systems. I am quite intrigued by the recent developments

The post Solar SImulations first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> One of my much cherished research goals is to work in the area of renewable energy systems. I am quite intrigued by the recent developments in solar energy systems that are producing superior solar panels as well as cheaper technology that also lasts longer. Geoffrey Grossman’s work at MIT is quite impressive in this regard. He developed Origami-based three-dimensional solar panels using evolutionary algorithms.

The key idea behind innovation in this feat is to have a realistic solar panel and to integrate it with a machine learning algorithm. The learning algorithm helps produce novel designs with trial and error, as is the case with any machine learning algorithm. I have been writing in the past about how to develop controllers for UAVs using machine learning. Similar ideas precisely map to this domain as well. The only difference being that instead of developing controllers, we evolve designs for solar panels.

I compiled a list of various online solar systems simulators. I hope that they can be used to come up with good innovative work on this.

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The post Solar Simulators first appeared on Psyops Prime.]]> Renewable energy research is quite hot these days. Among the various disciplines lie the olar energy systems. Quite unsurprisingly a lot of research is happening in this field these days around the world. And quite surprisingly, the discipline is observing gigantic strides. A few months a go there was a news article that announced the development of a polymer based solar panel design using genetic algorithms. The panel had remarkable electrical properties which were absent from its predecessor silicon based panels.

In order to develop or discover newer materials for solar systems one has to rely a lot on simulators for solar systems. There are quite a lot of simulators advertised some of which are free and others proprietary. This article lists some of the free solar simulators.

  1. QUCS is cited here.
  2. FLUXiM.
  3. This is a good article that describes the development of such a simulator.
  4. Another nice article.
  5. Silvaco.
  6. This technical report on modeling and simulation of solar energy systems sounds interesting.
  7. Modelling of photo voltaic cells using Matlab.
  8. Modelling of solar panels using matlab and simulink.
  9. Modelling of solar panels using matlab and simulink.
  10. Development of generalized photo voltaic model using Matlab.
  11. A Comprehensive approach to modelling and simulation of photo voltaic cells and arrays.
  12. Quokka in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

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