Patent ID: 8192027
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: F24S,G01S,Y02E,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A suntracking system for a solar power plant with a receiver, comprising: a heliostat field comprising three or more heliostats; a plurality of cameras directed toward the three or more heliostats, wherein the plurality of cameras comprises a first camera and a second camera, each camera configured to capture an image of at least one of the three or more heliostats; a calibration controller configured to concurrently: an estimation controller configured to estimate at least one geometric parameter for each of the three or more heliostats based on the one or more orientation angles and at least one nominal geometric parameter of the respective heliostat, wherein the system is configured to determine whether heliostats of the three or more heliostats are permitted to concurrently reflect or excluded from concurrently reflecting sunlight to be detected by a given camera of the first and second cameras based on proximities of the heliostats in an image plane of the given camera.