Paper Info
Title
Simulation of Photovoltaics for Defence and Commercial Applications by Extending Existing 3D Authoring Software - A Validation Study.
Abstract
The use of photovoltaic (PV) technology for the harvesting of renewable energy is a reality and is widely employed today. However this is mainly focused towards house and industry energy harvesting. Recent development in thin and flexible materials mean that photovoltaic technology can be integrated into wearable computing and expanded to other commercial as well as defence applications. This paper presents work under the Solar Soldier project that is developing a new photovoltaic simulation platform, based on flexible/wearable PVs and by extending commercial 3D design, animation and light analysis software, namely 3DS Max Design. The platform currently under development will allow the semi-automatic simulation of different scenarios and will also enable the unique feature of lighting analysis and data export of animated objects, which currently do not exist in other systems. This paper also presents a validation study of the light analysis simulation platform against actual light measurements in an outdoor scenario. This is one of the first systematic and thorough validation studies of 3DS Max Design focusing exclusively in outdoor conditions as all previous studies have focused mainly in indoor settings scenarios. The study results are extremely encouraging showing that the actual measurements and those simulated in 3DS Max Design are very similar.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
SIMULTECH 2011: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SIMULATION AND MODELING METHODOLOGIES, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS
3D simulation platform,Virtual reality,Photovoltaic,Solar energy harvesting planning tool,Computer simulation tool,Validation study
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.43
References 
Authors
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ioannis Paraskevopoulos131.46
Emmanuel Tsekleves29117.00