Research Article

An Automatic High Efficient Method for Dish Concentrator Alignment

Figure 1

(a) Support structure of facets. Each facet is mounted with supports from three footholds ( , , and ), forming an isosceles triangle configuration. All of them can move along the surface normal at that point. The inset shows a zoom of the rectangular region labeled by the green dash lines. (b) Schematic illustration of the relation of the movements of footholds , and the displacements of light spots on the screen. Moving the two bottom footholds , in same direction; light spot moves along and along while moving in opposite direction.
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