Capstone Team#5
Fall 2009
Table of Contents
Topic
Slide Number
Team information
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Instructor/Mentors Information
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Company Information
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Requirement Specification
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Solar Power Plant
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Demonstration
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Future work
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Conclusion
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Project Timeline
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References
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Team Information
Website: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf09g5
Yogesh Banchhod
Team Leader
Darshan Chipade
Email: ypbanchhod@gmail.com
Major: Computer Science
Role: Programmer/Research
Email: dchipade@gmail.com
Major: Computer Information System
Role: Programmer/Research/Webmaster
Syed Zaidi
Mohammed Gooni
Email: syedhmz@gmail.com
Major: Computer Science
Role: Programmer/Documentation
Email: mohammedgooni@gmail.com
Major: Computer Science
Role: Programmer/Research/Testing
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Instructor/Mentors Information
Dr. Michel Izygon
Co-Founder, Senior Vice Preident,
CTO, Tietronix Software Inc.
Email: Michel.Izygon@tietronix.com
Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue
Professor, Computer Science and
Computer Information Systems
Chair, Division of Computing and
Mathematics
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Email: yue@cl.uh.edu
Peter Armstrong
Tietronix Software Inc.
Email: peter.armstrong-1@tietronix.com
Claus Nilsson
Tietronix Software Inc.
Email: claus.nilsson@tietronix.com
Insiya Iftiqhar
Tietronix Software Inc.
Email: insia.iftiqhar@tietronix.com
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Company Information
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Tietronix Software, Inc. was founded in 1999 by Victor W. Tang, Michel E.
Izygon, Ph.D, and Stuart S. Engelhardt, each of whom has worked on the
development of some of the world’s most advanced software-based
technology solutions.
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Tietronix is a full-service provider of custom software applications and
advanced technology solutions for the worlds most selective customers
including NASA and Fortune 1000 companies.
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The core of Tietronix technical capabilities consists of an unrivaled
methodology incorporating Unified Modeling Language and ObjectOriented Technologies, a formula that has led to the company’s 100 percent
software development success rate.
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Introduction
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Solar thermal power plant generates
electricity from energy of the sun.
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Field consists of a tower and heliostats.
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A receiver located on top of the tower.
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iPhone/iPod Touch Application.
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Marketing Purpose.
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Requirement Specification
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Hardware
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iPhone/iPOD Touch
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Apple Macintosh
Software
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iPhone SDK
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Unity Indie 3D Game Engine
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Project Requirement
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User Input screen
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Date, time, heliostat measurement, tower measurement, field layout, tower
placement
Grid Layout Screen
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2D grid
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Computation of Sun position, heliostat position and blocking/shading
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Visualization Screen
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Sun View, tower View and heliostat View
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Heliostat
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The heliostat is composed of several
mirror modules rather than having
single large mirror.
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Heliostat position
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Field of heliostat.
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Grid of n rows and m columns.
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Tower Location.
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Center of the cell.
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Representative heliostat.
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Shading
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Shading occurs at low sun angles
when heliostat casts its shadow on a
heliostat located behind it.
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Blocking
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Blocking can be observed in a
heliostat field by noting reflected
light on the backs of heliostats.
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Sun Calculation
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Position of the sun.
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Accuracy of 0.01 degrees (36 arc
seconds) in celestial longitude 2D
grid.
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Using date, time, north latitude,
east longitude and elevation we
calculated the vectors
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Demonstration
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Lesson Learned
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Professional Approach.
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Research Work.
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New dimension and view.
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Team Work.
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Time management.
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Future Work
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Render multiple cells simultaneously.
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Complete day visualization.
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Conclusion
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Visualization of Solar Thermal Power Plant is successfully deployed on
iPhone/iPod-touch.
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The application renders cell containing heliostats.
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User can view the cell using three different views.
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User-Friendly software.
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Timeline
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References
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[1] “An Algorithm for the Shading and Blocking Computations of a Field of
Heliostats Arranged in a Grid Layout”, Peter Armstrong, Tietronix Software,
Inc September 3 2009.
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[2] Unity Web Forum http://forum.unity3d.com/
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[3] The Solar Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project
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[4] iPhone Publication http://unity3d.com/unity/features/iphone-publishing
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