A novel intelligent tracking controller based on human reaction towards light

Abstract

The tremendous development of technology led to increase the consumption of energies. Whereas, this consumption motivate the researchers to start looking for alternative energy sources that inexhaustible such as solar thermal, wind and tidal energies. However, this paper presents a novel intelligent controller that similar to the behavior of human brain in processing and producing the necessary commands to control the body's members. This controller has been trained and used in the solar tracking system to facilitate the process of controlling direction of the solar cell based on the intensity of the light throughout the day. Moreover, the intelligent controller processed the received signal from the LDR sensors similar to the behavior of the human brain that processed the received signals from the human eyes to enforce the neck to move towards the required direction. The processes of training and evaluating the performance of the controller carried out using of MATLAB. Furthermore, The simulation results show that the proposed system satisfies the required aims; where a few consumption associated with an increasing rate of 35% to 40% in the generated energy are achieved. This improvement leads to present solar tracking system that controlled by an intelligent controller with a higher efficiency at a lower cost.