Hot-Spot Detection System with Correction of Operating Point for PV Generation System

Currently, the production and the number of installations of PV （photovoltaic） modules have been increasing rapidly because of a feed-in tariff in Japan. Accordingly, the number of failures has also increased. Many failures are a result of the Hot-Spot phenomenon in which defective cell becomes hot when shadow occurs on the cell, On the other hand, if shadow occurs on normal cell, there are cases that P＆O method that is MPPT （maximum power point tracking） control method incorporated in conventional PV system cannot track maximum power point and generated power decreases. The correspondence is required rapidly if these trouble occur. However, conventional PV system monitors generated power, correspondence is impossible by monitoring generated power. Previously, the authors developed real time Hot-Spot detection system that incorporates into PCS （power conditioning system）. Thus, the authors developed plug-in type Hot-Spot monitoring system that includes ＂PV peak shift method＂ and confirmed effectiveness of the system in this time. ＂PV peak shift method＂ loads ＂Scan method＂ that is MPPT control method and measures I-V （current-voltage） characteristic by changing voltage of module from open to short by ＂Scan method＂ on a regular basis. The developed Hot-Spot monitoring system uses slope of I-V characteristic of PV module. Inserting developed system into already installed PV system, Hot-Spot can be easily monitored in real time and PV system can be operated at maximum power point.

Study on Improvement of MPPT Efficiency in PV Generation System with Partial Shadow

The maximum power point of PV （photovoltaic） generation moves depending on weather conditions and load. Therefore, it is significant to make sure that the panels can work at the maximum power point under MPPT （maximum power point tracking） control. However, it has the problems of low efficiency and unstable operation when panels are covered by the partial shadow. The result is that the output power may be substantially decreased. To overcome this issue, the authors propose a new plug-in operation point correction system. This system is put between PV panels and PCS （power conditioning system） in the existing PV generation system. In this paper, the experimental results describe that the output electric energy increases approximately 1.4 times as compared with the conventional system when the proposed correction system is inserted.

Correction of located points in a hyperbolical locating system with a short-baseline plane array

Here is reported an iteration method, which corrects the coordinates of an underwater moving target obtained by a hyperbolic locating system with a short-baseline plane array when the sound velocity varies with depth. A series of differential difference equations are used for determining the iterative values. The calculated results show that under the same conditions, the location error is about several meters or tens of meters without correction and less than 0.5 m with correction. The method can be applied to various types of arrays.

Adaptive merit function in SPGD algorithm for beam combining

The beam pointing is the most crucial issue for beam combining to achieve high energy laser output. In order to meet the turbulence situation, a beam pointing method that cooperates with the stochastic parallel gradient descent(SPGD) algorithm is proposed. The power-in-the-bucket(PIB) is chosen as the merit function, and its radius changes gradually during the correction process. The linear radius and the exponential radius are simulated. The results show that the exponential radius has great promise for beam pointing.