VISHELIO

A multidisciplinary project with the aim of developing and validate a new technique based on geometric optics and computer vision techniques to determine, in a reasonable time and with precision, alignment errors in heliostats to improve the efficiency of concentrating solar power tower plants

Latest News

• New article publication21/10/2022
  VISHELIO team publishes a new article in Renewable Energy journal. The work, entitled Canting heliostats with computer vision and theoretical imaging, summarizes the main findings and developments of VISHELIO project. The article is open-access at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.10.014
• We participated in the “Semana de la ciencia” program04/11/2021
  On November 4th, we received a group from “Siglo XXI” high school where we gave an introduction to concentrating solar power and optical techniques. After that, the students visited our testbed where we run a practical demonstration of the detection… Leer más: We participated in the “Semana de la ciencia” program
• New round of field tests at Plataforma Solar de Almería09/10/2021
  We visited again the biggest centre for research, development and testing in Europe devoted to concentrated solar energy technologies. This time, we spent a whole week working on canting heliostats using our technique and the preliminary results seemed promising. Now… Leer más: New round of field tests at Plataforma Solar de Almería
• Communications accepted in Solar Paces 202130/07/2021
  We are proud to announce that we got three communications accepted in Solar Paces. One of them as an oral session and two more as posters. Quantification of Canting Errors: Technique Combining Camera Vision with Theoretical (Oral presentation) Detecting the… Leer más: Communications accepted in Solar Paces 2021
• First tests at Plataforma Solar de Almería17/06/2021
  We have been to an actual thermosolar plant for a first approach towards the upcoming real-world tests in the VISHELIO project. We were able to select a suitable testing place with two full-fledged heliostats that suited the project’s needs. On… Leer más: First tests at Plataforma Solar de Almería

This work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of “Fostering Young Doctors Research” (VISHELIO-CM-UC3M), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation.