Design and analysis of an autonomous cleaning robot for large scale solar PV farms

Sundaram, M.; Prabhakaran, S.; Jishnu, T.; Sharma, Shashank

doi:10.1201/9780429468605-37

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“…In (Sundaram et al, 2019) The focus was on the concept of a robot that could be installed in any solar farm, easy to use and particularly easy to transport. A market survey and patent analysis on the use of Solar cleaning robots is presented in (Grando et al, 2019), which offers a general view of different approach and technologies involved and commercialized.…”

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Innovative Robot Design for Cleaning Solar Panels

Chellal

Lima

Pereira

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications

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The accumulation of dust particles on the solar panels decrease the total amount of solar energy received by the Photovoltaic panel (PV) and, it has also been proven that the increase of temperature reduces the overall efficiency. These effects have been studied by different researchers based on collected data comparison. As both of these parameters have a negative effect on the efficiency of the solar panel, it is essential to keep them clean and at low temperatures. The use of technologies, such as robots, is an effective way of carrying out repetitive tasks at low cost and in a short time. This work consists of developing a robot capable of cleaning and cooling the solar panels, based on images acquired through a camera positioned directly towards the panels, thus maintaining periodic cleaning in order to increase its efficiency. The preliminary results demonstrate the possibility of using this approach for the accomplishment of this task.

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Innovative Robot Design for Cleaning Solar Panels

Chellal

Lima

Pereira

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications

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“…Table 3 lists notable solar panel cleaning robots. Other examples are reported in [114]- [118]. Interested readers are referred to a recently conducted review [119] reporting state-of-the-art on robots for cleaning PV panels.…”

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Robotics Inspired Renewable Energy Developments: Prospective Opportunities and Challenges

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The domain of Robotics is a good partner of renewable energy and is becoming critical to the sustainability and survival of the energy industry. The multi-disciplinary nature of robots offers precision, repeatability, reliability, productivity and intelligence, thus rendering their services in diversified tasks ranging from manufacturing, assembling, and installation to inspection and maintenance of renewable resources. This paper explores applications of real robots in four feasible renewable energy domains; solar, wind, hydro, and biological setups. In each case, existing state-of-the-art innovative robotic systems are investigated that have the potential to create a difference in the corresponding renewable sector in terms of reduced set-up time, lesser cost, improved quality, enhanced productivity and exceptional competitiveness in the global market. Instrumental opportunities and challenges of robot deployment in the renewable sector are also discussed with a brief case study of Saudi Arabia. It is expected that the wider dissemination of the instrumental role of robotics in renewable energy will contribute to further developments and stimulate more collaborations and partnerships between professionals of robotics and energy communities.INDEX TERMS Applied robotics, automation in renewable energy, mobile robots, robotic manipulators, solar PV module, wind turbines.

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“…Likewise, [40] proposed a similar approach based on a camera mounted directly on the robot, under the control of a mobile application that also collects the data allowing both monitoring and cleaning of both the solar irradiation and the photovoltaic surface, respectively. Also, there was a focus on the concept of a freely moving robot capable of climbing a slope of up to 20 °, that could be installed on any solar farm and easy to use and transport [41,42]). Moreover, [43] presented a novel design for a portable robotic cleaning system for solar panels that can clean and maneuver on the PV panel glass surface at varying angles from horizontal to vertical by using a microcontroller board Arduino Uno R3 to easily control all the robotic parts.…”

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Designing and Manufacturing a Robot for Dry-Cleaning PV Solar Panels

AMIN

Wang

Alroichdi

et al. 2023

International Journal of Energy Research

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Solar energy is one of the most important solutions to reduce the concerns of the severe climate change phenomenon. Granted, the main manner to harness solar energy to generate power electricity is implemented through arrays made up of PV solar panels. However, the accumulation of dust on PV surfaces nevertheless remains a serious issue that considerably reduces the efficient conversion of PV panels. Therefore, this research is aimed at automating both monitoring and cleaning of the PV panel’s surfaces through the design, manufacture, and operation and evaluating a dry-cleaning robot based on a color monitoring system. The preliminary results demonstrate that the color analysis of the PV panels can distinguish between the density of dust accumulated, where the total color differences between the clean PV panels and both the PV panels with simple, moderate, and intense dust were 43.69, 61.19, and 75.23. This raised the efficiency of the power produced for simple dust panels from 88.03 to 98.91% (one cleaning round), moderate dust panels from 70.72 to 92.96%, and intense dust panels from 39.05 to 62.11% (two cleaning rounds). These preliminary finds illustrate the possibility of using this approach to automatic monitoring the PV panel color and operate the cleaning robot.

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Design and analysis of an autonomous cleaning robot for large scale solar PV farms

Cited by 6 publications

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Innovative Robot Design for Cleaning Solar Panels

Innovative Robot Design for Cleaning Solar Panels

Robotics Inspired Renewable Energy Developments: Prospective Opportunities and Challenges

Designing and Manufacturing a Robot for Dry-Cleaning PV Solar Panels

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