Title : 
Design of a solar tracking system for renewable energy
         
        
            Author : 
Jeng-Nan Juang ; Radharamanan, Ramachandran
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Eng., Mercer Univ., Macon, GA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, a solar tracking system for renewable energy is designed and built to collect free energy from the sun, store it in the battery, and convert this energy to alternating current (AC). This makes the energy usable in standard-sized homes as a supplemental source of power or as an independent power source. The system is designed to respond to its environment in the shortest amount of time. Any source of error at both the software and the hardware level is eliminated, or at least controlled. The system is tested for real-time responsiveness, reliability, stability, and safety. The system is designed to be stable while it is operating. It is also designed to be resistant to weather, temperature and minor mechanical stresses. Furthermore, the system is fail-safe; it can recover from failures or at least indicate that it is in that condition.
         
        
            Keywords : 
invertors; solar power; independent power source; renewable energy; solar tracking system; standard-sized homes; supplemental power source; Actuators; Batteries; Inverters; Lenses; Mirrors; Solar energy; Sun; Solar tracking system; integrated liquid-crystal display (LCD) unit; power inverter; renewable energy;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1), 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Bridgeport, CT
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-5232-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ASEEZone1.2014.6820643