Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers play an important role in photovoltaic systems. They maximize the output power of a PV array for a given set of conditions. This paper presents an overview of the different MPPT techniques. Each technique is evaluated on its ability to detect multiple maxima, convergence speed, ease of implementation, efficiency over a wide output power range, and...

BACKGROUND Several known demographic and functional characteristics combine to predict physical function after hip fracture. Long-term weight-bearing asymmetries, evident during functional movements after hip fracture, contribute to limited mobility and large asymmetries in muscle function are linked to a high rate of injurious falls. Although postfracture mobility is commonly measured as whole...

This paper presents 500 KW three phase standalone photovoltaic systems supplying pumping station consist of four pumps 80 KW rating. The system utilizes a two stage energy conversion power conditioning unit topology composed of a DC-DC boost converter and three level-three phase voltage source inverter (VSI). The Boost converter in this paper is designed to operate in continuous mode and contro...

Many maximum power point tracking techniques for photovoltaic systems have been developed to maximize the produced energy and a lot of these are well established in the literature. These techniques vary in many aspects as: simplicity, convergence speed, digital or analogical implementation, sensors required, cost, range of effectiveness, and in other aspects. This paper presents a comparative s...

In this paper the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms for wind energy systems arereviewed. As the amounts of power produced in wind power plants is changing due to theinstantaneous changing nature of the wind, it is desirable to determine the one optimal generatorspeed that ensures maximum energy yield. Thus, it is important to include a controller that cantrack the maximum peak rega...

This paper presents a practical variation of extremum seeking (ES) that guarantees asymptotic convergence through a Lyapunov-based switching scheme (Lyap-ES). Traditional ES methods enter a limit cycle around the optimum. Lyap-ES converges to the optimum by exponentially decaying the perturbation signal once the system enters a neighborhood around the extremum. As a case study, we consider maxi...

The reliability plays an important role in power electronic systems by which the number of system failures, repair costs, guarantee and etc. are estimated. In this paper first, a boost Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) converter is simulated in Discontinues Conduction Mode (DCM) and Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM) under different output power ratings. For these simulations, all of the inheren...

A maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique based on linear quadratic regulator (LQR) approach for solar photo-voltaic system has been proposed in this paper. LQR based MPPT controller has been designed with online set-point adjustment approach using current, radiation and temperature sensors. Real time simulations have been carried out on MATLAB TM /dSPACE TM platform for solar photo-volta...

The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the stability of a grid for a NonConventional energy generating system that is photovoltaic power plant t h a t features a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) scheme based on fuzzy logic control. The step of modeling with MATLAB/Simulink of the photovoltaic system is shown respectively and simulation results are discussed. This fuzzy MPPT shows ac...

This paper presents the development of a high gain Boost converter applied to photovoltaic (PV) system. The converter was designed to be connected directly to the photovoltaic panel and perform the search for the maximum power point (MPPT). The new proposal seeks the MPPT is to connect each panel a converter for a high gain greater accuracy in finding the point of maximum power. The converter w...