1. Capstone Team#5 Fall 2009

2. 2 Table of ContentsTable of Contents TopicSlide Number Team information ………………………………………………3 Instructor/Mentors Information ………………………………………………4 Company Information ………………………………………………5 Requirement Specification ………………………………………………7 Solar Power Plant ………………………………………………7 Demonstration ……………………………………………..14 Future work ……………………………………………..16 Conclusion ……………………………………………..17 Project Timeline ……………………………………………..18 References ……………………………………………..19 2Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

3. 3 Website: http://dcm.uhcl.edu/capf09g5 Yogesh Banchhod Team Leader Email: ypbanchhod@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research Syed Zaidi Email: syedhmz@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Documentation Darshan Chipade Email: dchipade@gmail.com Major: Computer Information System Role: P rogrammer/Research/Webmaster Mohammed Gooni Email: mohammedgooni@gmail.com Major: Computer Science Role: Programmer/Research/Testing Team InformationTeam Information 3Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

4. 4 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.eduyue@cl.uh.edu Dr. Michel Izygon Co-Founder, Senior Vice Preident, CTO, Tietronix Software Inc. Email : Michel.Izygon@tietronix.com Instructor/Mentors InformationInstructor/Mentors Information 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 4Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

5. 5 Company InformationCompany Information  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.  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.  The core of Tietronix technical capabilities consists of an unrivaled methodology incorporating Unified Modeling Language and Object- Oriented Technologies, a formula that has led to the company’s 100 percent software development success rate. 5Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

6. 6 Introduction  Solar thermal power plant generates electricity from energy of the sun.  Field consists of a tower and heliostats.  A receiver located on top of the tower.  iPhone/iPod Touch Application.  Marketing Purpose. 6Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

7. 7 Requirement SpecificationRequirement Specification  Hardware  iPhone/iPOD Touch  Apple Macintosh  Software  iPhone SDK  Unity Indie 3D Game Engine 7Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

8. 8 Project Requirement  User Input screen  Date, time, heliostat measurement, tower measurement, field layout, tower placement  Grid Layout Screen  2D grid  Computation of Sun position, heliostat position and blocking/shading  Visualization Screen  Sun View, tower View and heliostat View 8Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

9. 9 Heliostat  The heliostat is composed of several mirror modules rather than having single large mirror. 9Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

10. 10 Heliostat position  Field of heliostat.  Grid of n rows and m columns.  Tower Location.  Center of the cell.  Representative heliostat. 10Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

11. 11 Shading  Shading occurs at low sun angles when heliostat casts its shadow on a heliostat located behind it. 11Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

12. 12 Blocking  Blocking can be observed in a heliostat field by noting reflected light on the backs of heliostats. 12Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

13. 13 Sun Calculation  Position of the sun.  Accuracy of 0.01 degrees (36 arc seconds) in celestial longitude 2D grid.  Using date, time, north latitude, east longitude and elevation we calculated the vectors 13Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

14. 14 Demonstration 14Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

15. 15 Lesson Learned  Professional Approach.  Research Work.  New dimension and view.  Team Work.  Time management. 15Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

16. 16 Future Work  Render multiple cells simultaneously.  Complete day visualization.

17. 17 Conclusion  Visualization of Solar Thermal Power Plant is successfully deployed on iPhone/iPod-touch.  The application renders cell containing heliostats.  User can view the cell using three different views.  User-Friendly software. 17Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

18. 18 Timeline Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

19. 19 References  [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.  [2] Unity Web Forum http://forum.unity3d.com/http://forum.unity3d.com/  [3] The Solar Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Projecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project  [4] iPhone Publication http://unity3d.com/unity/features/iphone-publishinghttp://unity3d.com/unity/features/iphone-publishing 19Visualization iPhone Fall 2009

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