Amorphous silicon photovoltaic/thermal(a-Si-PV/T)technology is promising due to the low power temperature coefficient,thin-film property,thermal annealing effect of the solar cells,and high conversion efficiency in su...Amorphous silicon photovoltaic/thermal(a-Si-PV/T)technology is promising due to the low power temperature coefficient,thin-film property,thermal annealing effect of the solar cells,and high conversion efficiency in summer.The design of a-Si-PV/T system is influenced by a number of thermodynamic,structural,and external parameters.Parametric analysis is useful for a good design of the system.A dynamic distributed parameter model is built and verified in this paper.Outdoor tests are carried out.The impacts of operating temperature,mass flow rate,cover ratio of solar cells,heat transfer area,and frame shadow ratio on its performance are theoretically and experimentally investigated.The results indicate that seven or eight copper tubes are suitable to achieve a high overall efficiency of the a-Si-PV/T system.The frame and tilt angle shall avoid a shadow ratio of more than 8.3%during operation.The difference between power outputs at operating temperatures of 35℃and55℃in the first month is about 0.21%while it drops to less than 0.1%in the twelfth month.Compared with conventional PVT systems,the a-Si-PV/T system benefits from a higher design temperature with a minor efficiency decrement.展开更多
This article studies distributed pose(orientation and position)estimation of leader–follower multi-agent systems over𝜅-layer graphs in 2-D plane.Only the leaders have access to their orientations and position...This article studies distributed pose(orientation and position)estimation of leader–follower multi-agent systems over𝜅-layer graphs in 2-D plane.Only the leaders have access to their orientations and positions,while the followers can measure the relative bearings or(angular and linear)velocities in their unknown local coordinate frames.For the orientation estimation,the local relative bearings are used to obtain the relative orientations among the agents,based on which a distributed orientation estimation algorithm is proposed for each follower to estimate its orientation.For the position estimation,the local relative bearings are used to obtain the position constraints among the agents,and a distributed position estimation algorithm is proposed for each follower to estimate its position by solving its position constraints.Both the orientation and position estimation errors converge to zero asymptotically.A simulation example is given to verify the theoretical results.展开更多
基金sponsored by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2022M713463)National Natural Science Foundation of China(52206292)+1 种基金the EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships Program(703746)the Major Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2019ZD11)。
文摘Amorphous silicon photovoltaic/thermal(a-Si-PV/T)technology is promising due to the low power temperature coefficient,thin-film property,thermal annealing effect of the solar cells,and high conversion efficiency in summer.The design of a-Si-PV/T system is influenced by a number of thermodynamic,structural,and external parameters.Parametric analysis is useful for a good design of the system.A dynamic distributed parameter model is built and verified in this paper.Outdoor tests are carried out.The impacts of operating temperature,mass flow rate,cover ratio of solar cells,heat transfer area,and frame shadow ratio on its performance are theoretically and experimentally investigated.The results indicate that seven or eight copper tubes are suitable to achieve a high overall efficiency of the a-Si-PV/T system.The frame and tilt angle shall avoid a shadow ratio of more than 8.3%during operation.The difference between power outputs at operating temperatures of 35℃and55℃in the first month is about 0.21%while it drops to less than 0.1%in the twelfth month.Compared with conventional PVT systems,the a-Si-PV/T system benefits from a higher design temperature with a minor efficiency decrement.
基金supported by Nanyang Technological University,Singapore under the Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Natural Science Foundation in Heilongjiang Province,China(YQ2022F003).
文摘This article studies distributed pose(orientation and position)estimation of leader–follower multi-agent systems over𝜅-layer graphs in 2-D plane.Only the leaders have access to their orientations and positions,while the followers can measure the relative bearings or(angular and linear)velocities in their unknown local coordinate frames.For the orientation estimation,the local relative bearings are used to obtain the relative orientations among the agents,based on which a distributed orientation estimation algorithm is proposed for each follower to estimate its orientation.For the position estimation,the local relative bearings are used to obtain the position constraints among the agents,and a distributed position estimation algorithm is proposed for each follower to estimate its position by solving its position constraints.Both the orientation and position estimation errors converge to zero asymptotically.A simulation example is given to verify the theoretical results.
