Optical analysis for simplified astigmatic correction of non-imaging focusing heliostat

In the previous work, non-imaging focusing heliostat that consists of m n facet mirrors can carry out continuous astigmatic correction during sun-tracking with the use of only (m + n 2) controllers. For this paper, a simplified astigmatic correction of non-imaging focusing heliostat is proposed for reducing the number of controllers from (m + n 2) to only two. Furthermore, a detailed optical analysis of the new proposal has been carried out and the simulated result has shown that the two-controller system can perform comparably well in astigmatic correction with a much simpler and more cost effective design. 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.