Control of Solar Energy Systems

There is a new author in the list: Diego Martinez who is the director of the "Plataforma Solar de Almeria", one of the most important solar energy research facilities in the world where an important part of the existing solar technology has been developed. E. F. Camacho is one of the Editor of the Control Engineering Practice Journal, Associate Editor of the European Journal of Control, Chairman of the IFAC Publication Committee, chair of the IEEE CSS International Affairs Committee, and Vice president of the European Union Control Association.

Introduction.- Description and dynamic models of the plant.- Basic control schema.- Basic structures of adaptive control.- Model-based predictive control strategies.- Frequency-domain control and robust optimal control.- Heuristic fuzzy logic control.- Solar radiation, estimation and prediction.- Temperature control of solar parabolic trough plants.- Solar towers and solar tracking.- Heliostat control. Solar radiation and solar furnaces.- Summary and concluding remarks.