In this paper, a simulation model of a solar cell is defined to allow estimation of the electrical behavior of the cell with respect changes on environmental parameter of temperature and irradiance. Maximum Power Point Trackers (MPPT) play an important role in photovoltaic (PV) power systems because they maximize the power output from a PV system for a given set of conditions, and therefore max...

The output power delivered by solar photovoltaic (PV) module depends on weather conditions and to obtain maximum they are required to operate at maximum available power point for different weather conditions. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controllers are usually employed in PV power systems to extract maximum power. Since the solar PV module characteristics are highly nonlinear, conventio...

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...

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...

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...

In this paper, ANN controller for maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic (PV) systems is proposed and PV modeling is discussed. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods are used to maximize the PV array output power by tracking continuously the maximum power point. ANN controller with hillclimbing algorithm offers fast and accurate converging to the maximum operating point during stead...

Making full use of abundant renewable solar energy through the development of photovoltaic (PV) technology is an effective means to solve the problems such as difficulty in electricity supply and energy shortages in remote rural areas. In order to improve the electricity generating efficiency of PV cells, it is necessary to track the maximum power point of PV array, which is difficult to make u...

This paper presents the comparative analysis between constant duty cycle and Perturb & Observe (P&O) algorithm for extracting the power from Photovoltaic Array (PVA). Because of nonlinear characteristics of PV cell, the maximum power can be extract under particular voltage condition. Therefore, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithms are used in PVA to maximize the output power. In this ...

This paper develops a PI-like interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy maximum power point tracking (MPPT) control method for a class of wind power generation and battery charging systems with DC/DC buck converters. After the brief model descriptions of the wind power turbine, generator and DC/DC buck converter, the proposed MPPT controller is designed using IT2 fuzzy control logics and its asymptotical sta...

The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) system controls the voltage and the current output of the PV system to deliver maximum power to the load. Present work deals a comparative analysis of incremental conductance, and neural network based MPPT techniques. Parameters values were extracted using Newton Raphson method from characteristics of Shell SP75 module. The simulations have been carried o...