This paper proposes an artificialintelligence-based solution to interface photovoltaic (PV) array with the three phase ac load and to deliver maximum power to the load. The maximum power delivery to the load is achieved by MPPT controller which employs adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). The proposed ANFIS-based MPPT offers an extremely fast dynamic response with great accuracy. The ...

An intelligent control of photovoltaics is necessary to ensure fast response and high efficiency under different weather conditions. This is often arduous to accomplish using traditional linear controllers, as photovoltaic systems are nonlinear and contain several uncertainties. Based on the analysis of the existing literature of Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques, a high performanc...

This paper focuses on the implementation of a three-phase four wire current-controlled Voltage Source Inverter (CC-VSI) as both PV energy extraction and power quality improvement. For power quality improvement, the CC-VSI works as a grid current-controller shunt active power filter. Then, the PV array supported by a Look-up Table type of a MPPT controller is coupled to the DC bus of the CC-VSI....

A digital coreless maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit for thermoelectric generator unit is proposed and fabricated. The experimental and simulation results from the proposed MPPT circuit dealt with rapid variation of temperature and abrupt changes of load current have shown that the proposed method allows stable operation with high power transfer efficiency. The proposed MPPT circuit h...

This paper presents a new nonlinear backstepping controller for a direct-driven permanent magnet synchronous generator-based wind turbine, which is connected to the power system via back-to-back converters. The proposed controller deals with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) in normal condition and enhances the low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) capability in fault conditions. In this method, to...

– This paper presents the optimization of a photovoltaic (PV) water pumping system using maximum power point tracking technique (MPPT). The optimization is suspended to reference optimal power. This optimization technique is developed to assure the optimum chopping ratio of buck-boost converter. The presented MPPT technique is used in photovoltaic water pumping system in order to optimize its e...

To convert solar energy more viable, the efficiency of solar array systems should be maximized. An easier approach to maximizing the efficiency of solar array systems is Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT). MPPT is used in photovoltaic (PV) systems to maximize the output power of photovoltaic array, irrespective of the irradiation and temperature conditions. Many conventional MPPT fails to atta...

The performance of intelligent maximum power point tracking (MPPT) such as Fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and artificial neural network (ANN) are investigated, and compared with traditional constant voltage (CVC), Perturb & observed (P&O) and Incremental conductance (IC) MPPT methods to achieve maximum power point (MPP) through PV system, in this paper. For transient analysis of MPPT assisted pho...

This paper proposes a novel optimal current given (OCG) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control strategy based on the theory of power feedback and hill climb searching (HCS) for a permanent magnet direct drive wind energy conversion system (WECS). The presented strategy not only has the advantages of not needing the wind speed and wind turbine characteristics of the traditional HCS method, ...

Maximum power point tracking controller is essential to obtain the maximum power from a solar array in the photovoltaic systems as the PV power module varies with the temperature and solar irradiation. In this paper, several methods for the MPPT of the PV systems are discussed and it can to be used as a Helpful reference for the upcoming MPPT user in the PV applications.