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Heliostat shape and orientation by edge detection / Marc Roger in Transactions of the ASME. Journal of solar energy engineering, Vol. 132 N° 2 (Mai 2010) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Transactions of the ASME. Journal of solar energy engineering > Vol. 132 N° 2 (Mai 2010) . - pp. [021002/1-7] Titre : Heliostat shape and orientation by edge detection Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Marc Roger, Auteur ; Christoph Prahl, Auteur ; Steffen Ulmer, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. [021002/1-7] Note générale : Energie Solaire Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Edge  detection  Photogrammetry  Heliostat  shape  Heliostat  orientation  Solar  tower  Digital  imaging Index. décimale : 621.47 Résumé : The heliostats of central receiver solar power plants reach dimensions up to 150 m2 with focal lengths up to 1000 m. Their optical properties and tracking accuracy have great influence on the power plant efficiency and need to be monitored both at plant start up and during operation. Up to now, there are few efficient and fast measurement techniques that allow the heliostat properties to be measured. Flux density measurements and close-range photogrammetry are possible approaches, yet they do not fulfill the requirement to be accurate, inexpensive, and fast at the same time. In this paper, we present a noncontact measurement principle, which uses edge detection to extract the heliostat and facet vertices. This information is used to calculate the surface normals. Furthermore, the corners can replace retroreflective targets generally used in close-range photogrammetry, thus, enabling a fast and completely automatic evaluation of the three-dimensional heliostat structure. The pictures are provided by a digital camera, which is mounted on a pan tilt head on top of the central receiver tower, offering visibility to all heliostats and allowing the automated qualification of whole heliostat fields in a short period of time. It is shown that measurement uncertainties in heliostat orientation for the investigated heliostat are below 4 mrad in 80% of the relevant heliostat positions. Heliostat orientation is available within three minutes. Photogrammetric measurements based on edge detection at a 40 m2 CESA-1 heliostat at the Plataforma Solar de Almerìa exhibit an accuracy of 1.6 mrad for a single-facet normal vector with the results being available within 30 min. The reduced measurement time allows the economic characterization of entire heliostat fields. The lower accuracy compared with manual photogrammetry with retroreflective targets is still sufficient to detect facet misalignments in existing heliostat fields. DEWEY : 621.47 ISSN : 0199-6231 En ligne : http://asmedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JSEEDO00013200 [...] [article] Heliostat shape and orientation by edge detection [texte imprimé] / Marc Roger, Auteur ; Christoph Prahl, Auteur ; Steffen Ulmer, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. [021002/1-7]. Energie Solaire Langues : Anglais (eng) in Transactions of the ASME. Journal of solar energy engineering > Vol. 132 N° 2 (Mai 2010) . - pp. [021002/1-7] Mots-clés : Edge  detection  Photogrammetry  Heliostat  shape  Heliostat  orientation  Solar  tower  Digital  imaging Index. décimale : 621.47 Résumé : The heliostats of central receiver solar power plants reach dimensions up to 150 m2 with focal lengths up to 1000 m. Their optical properties and tracking accuracy have great influence on the power plant efficiency and need to be monitored both at plant start up and during operation. Up to now, there are few efficient and fast measurement techniques that allow the heliostat properties to be measured. Flux density measurements and close-range photogrammetry are possible approaches, yet they do not fulfill the requirement to be accurate, inexpensive, and fast at the same time. In this paper, we present a noncontact measurement principle, which uses edge detection to extract the heliostat and facet vertices. This information is used to calculate the surface normals. Furthermore, the corners can replace retroreflective targets generally used in close-range photogrammetry, thus, enabling a fast and completely automatic evaluation of the three-dimensional heliostat structure. The pictures are provided by a digital camera, which is mounted on a pan tilt head on top of the central receiver tower, offering visibility to all heliostats and allowing the automated qualification of whole heliostat fields in a short period of time. It is shown that measurement uncertainties in heliostat orientation for the investigated heliostat are below 4 mrad in 80% of the relevant heliostat positions. Heliostat orientation is available within three minutes. Photogrammetric measurements based on edge detection at a 40 m2 CESA-1 heliostat at the Plataforma Solar de Almerìa exhibit an accuracy of 1.6 mrad for a single-facet normal vector with the results being available within 30 min. The reduced measurement time allows the economic characterization of entire heliostat fields. The lower accuracy compared with manual photogrammetry with retroreflective targets is still sufficient to detect facet misalignments in existing heliostat fields. DEWEY : 621.47 ISSN : 0199-6231 En ligne : http://asmedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JSEEDO00013200 [...]