CONTROL OF THE ADAPTIVE SOLAR FACADE - ETH Z OF THE ADAPTIVE SOLAR FACADE Master Thesis The Adaptive...
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/ ITA Institute of Technology in Architecture Faculty of Architecture / ETH Zurich Architecture & Building Systems Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter ETH Zurich / Building HPZ / Floor G John-Von-Neumann Weg 9 / CH-8093 Zurich http://systems.arch.ethz.ch CONTROL OF THE ADAPTIVE SOLAR FACADE Master Thesis The Adaptive Solar Façade (ASF) is an array of independently actuated thin film solar panels. The actuation allows for solar tracking, and precise control of solar insolation into the building. This in turn can optimize solar harvesting, and reduce the building heating, lighting and cool- ing demands. See: http://suat.arch.ethz.ch/en/research/adaptive-solar-facade Models have been created to determine the optimum angles of the panels for each time step. However these models have not yet been implemented on our prototypes Figure 1 : ASF Display Prototype at the Glasstec Exhibition 2016 The goal of this thesis is to use existing models to control the panel angles of the Glasstec Pro- totype • Knowledge of numerical tools, e.g., MATLAB/Python is required • Knowledge Ubuntu or RaspberryPi is useful, but not necessary. Willingness to learn these tools is expected. We are looking for motivated students to support our research. Please send a copy of previous project work (BSc, etc.) with your application. Contact: Prageeth Jayathissa [email protected]
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CONTROL OF THE ADAPTIVE SOLAR FACADE Master Thesis The Adaptive Solar Façade (ASF) is an array of independently actuated thin film solar panels. The actuation allows for solar tracking, and precise control of solar insolation into the building. This in turn can optimize solar harvesting, and reduce the building heating, lighting and cool-ing demands. See: http://suat.arch.ethz.ch/en/research/adaptive-solar-facade Models have been created to determine the optimum angles of the panels for each time step. However these models have not yet been implemented on our prototypes
Figure 1 : ASF Display Prototype at the Glasstec Exhibition 2016 The goal of this thesis is to use existing models to control the panel angles of the Glasstec Pro-totype
• Knowledge of numerical tools, e.g., MATLAB/Python is required • Knowledge Ubuntu or RaspberryPi is useful, but not necessary. Willingness to learn
these tools is expected. We are looking for motivated students to support our research. Please send a copy of previous project work (BSc, etc.) with your application. Contact: Prageeth Jayathissa [email protected]
