Design of a Solar Panel Tracking System with Dual Axis Based on Arduino to Optimize Solar Panel Power Output

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-618-5_10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

solar panel; solar tracker; arduino uno; sensor LDR (light dependent resistor)

Abstract

Solar panels are devices that can convert solar energy into electrical energy. People often install solar panels on building roofs, on open land, and even on vehicles like boats and electric cars to produce clean and sustainable electricity. Solar panels are an effort to reduce the use of fossil fuel-based electrical energy, which contributes to global warming. Tropical countries such as Indonesia utilize solar panels. This research aims to design a dual - axis solar panel tracking system based on Arduino for use in various areas. This system aims to address energy issues by utilizing solar energy as an alternative energy source. This tool em- ploys literature and field research methods. This tool will design a Solar Tracker that utilizes sunlight as its input, an LDR as a sensor, an Arduino Uno as a control system, a servo motor as the actuator output to move the solar panel, a lithium battery to store solar panel power, and a dual-axis bracket that serves as a tracker for solar panels and a driver for solar panels that track the sun's movement. The Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment) software pro- cesses the Arduino data. The 3rd test (final test) reveals that the solar tracker on the solar panel can generate 5.47 watts of power.

Copyright

© 2024 The Author(s)

Open Access

Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Nia Nuraeni Suryaman
AU  - Bagus Iman Riyadhi
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/29
TI  - Design of a Solar Panel Tracking System with Dual Axis Based on Arduino to Optimize Solar Panel Power Output
BT  - Proceedings of the Widyatama International Conference on Engineering 2024 (WICOENG 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 84
EP  - 92
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-618-5_10
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-618-5_10
ID  - Suryaman2024
ER  -