SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR SOLAR PANEL MONITORING

NSF GOALI PROJECT

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Fault Detection using Machine Learning in PV

Solar Facility Programming Workshop

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Participants:
Dr. Andreas Spanias, Professor, Principal Investigator
Dr. Devarajan Srinivasan, Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Cihan Tepedelenlioglu, Professor, Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Raja Ayanar, Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Mahesh K. Banavar, assistant professor
Shwetang Peshin, M.S. Student
Jongmin Lee, PhD. Student
Henry Braun, Ph.D. Student
Sunil Rao, Ph.D. Student
David Ramirez, REU/REV Student
This three year NSF GOALI project addresses several new Photovoltaic (PV) data processing, modeling and control methods for monitoring PV arrays using Smart Monitoring Devices (SMD) that sense and actuate at the individual panel level. SMD prototypes have been designed by Paceco (subsidiary of Mitsui) and  ACT Corporation. All companies have been working very closely with faculty in the ASU Sensor Signal and Information Processing center (SenSIP / also I/UCRC site) for three years and obtained data and results for solar panel monitoring, fault detection and optimization.
Algorithms Created:
Solar Monitoring Facility
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Grants as PI or Co-PI with other SenSIP faculty PIs in the Solar Power area include:
  • NSF 1308052 (9/13-9/16):GOALI: Intelligent Networked Solar Panel Array Management, PI: A. Spanias C. Tepedelenlioglu, 3 years, $200k.
  • NSF 1307982 (8/13-9/16): PI team: C. Tepedelenlioglu and A. Spanias, Distributed and Robust Estimation for Cyberphysical Systems using a Nonlinear Consensus Approach, 3 years,$350k .
  • ViaSOL, (5/13-5/15), PI team: A. Spanias and C. Tepedelenlioglu, $60k, SenSIP Industry (I/UCRC) Membership and project, “Research on PV array topologies.”
  • Applied Core Tecnologies, (11/13-11/15), PI team: A. Spanias and C. Tepedelenlioglu, $60k, SenSIP Industry Membership and project, “Research on Smart PV Monitoring devices. “
Co-Authored Book and Papers in Solar Power Monitoring:
[1] H. Braun, S. T. Buddha, V. Krishnan, A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioglu, T. Takehara, S. Takada, T. Yeider, and M. Banavar, Signal Processing for Solar Array Monitoring, Fault Detection, and Optimization, Synthesis Lectures on Power Electronics, J. Hudgins, Ed. Morgan & Claypool, vol. 3, no. 1, Sep. 2012.

[2] Buddha, S.; Braun, H.; Krishnan, V.; Tepedelenlioglu, C.; Spanias, A.; Yeider, T.;; , “Signal processing for photovoltaic applications,” IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications (ESPA), 2012, vol., no., pp.115-118, Jan. 2012.

[3] Braun, H.; Buddha, S.T.; Krishnan, V.; Spanias, A.; Tepedelenlioglu, C.; Yeider, T.; Takehara; , “Signal processing for fault detection in photovoltaic arrays,”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP) , pp.1681-1684, March 2012.

[4] V. Krishnan, H.C. Braun, C. Tepedelenlioglu, A. Spanias, “A comprehensive monitoring system for photovoltaic arrays”, Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications, Feb. 2012.

[5] S. Peshin, D. Ramirez, J. Lee, H. Braun, C. Tepedelenlioglu, A. Spanias, M. Banavar, and D. Srinivasan, “A photovoltaic (PV) array monitoring simulator,” Proc. Modelling, Identification and Control, 34th IASTED international conference on, Feb. 2015.

[6] H. Braun, S. T. Buddha, V. Krishnan, C. Tepedelenlioglu, A. Spanias, M. Banavar, and D. Srinivansan, “Topology reconfiguration for optimization of photovoltaic array output,” Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 2015, submitted.

[7] H. Braun, S. Peshin, A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioglu, M. Banavar, G. Kalyanasundaram, and D. Srinivansan, “Irradiance estimation for a smart PV array,” in IEEE Energy Conversion Conference and Expo, 2015.

[8] H. Braun, S. T. Buddha, V. Krishnan, C. Tepedelenlioglu, A. Spanias, M. Banavar, and D. Srinivansan, “Topology reconfiguration for optimization of photovoltaic array output,” Elsevier Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks(SEGAN), pp. 58-69, Vol. 6, June  2016.

[9] A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioglu, E.Kyriakides, D. Ramirez, S. Rao, H. Braun, J. Lee, D. Srinivasan, J. Frye, S. Koizumi, Y. Morimoto, “An 18 kW Solar Array Research Facility for Fault Detection Experiments,” Proc. 18th MELECON, Technical Co-sponsor IEEE Region 8, T1.SP1.12, Limassol, Cyprus, April 2016.
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Theses Supervised:
[1] H. Braun, Signal Processing and Robust Statistics for Fault Detection in Photovoltaic Arrays, M.S. Thesis, (Advisors Spanias/Tepedelenlioglu), Arizona State University, 2012.

[2] V. Krishnan, Sensor Placement and Graphical User Interface for Photovoltaic Array Monitoring System, M.S. Thesis (Advisors Spanias/Tepedelenlioglu), Arizona State University, 2012.

[3] S.T. Buddha, Topology Reconfiguration To Improve The Photovoltaic (PV) Array Performance, M.S. Thesis, Arizona State University, 2011.
Federal Grant or Other Identifying Number Assigned by Agency: NSF Award 1308052