On The Control of Parabolic Solar Collector: The Zipper Approach

Abstract

Abstract- Creative inspirations that marked the great moments of human genius are linked to seemingly insignificant details: an Apple for Newton, a Bath for Archimedes, and many other impressive examples. In this paper, we propose a new controller design inspired from the functioning principle of "The zipper". The main motivation of this work consists in forcing the outlet temperature of a solar collector to track a desired reference. The proposed control scheme is based on the Lapunov stability analysis as well as the zipper functioning principle. Finally, numerical simulations are done with real system parameters for showing the effectiveness of the proposed controller.