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...

This paper presents a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm of a PV system under real climatic conditions. The proposed MPPT is based on the perturbation and observation (P&O) strategy that control the load voltage to ensure optimal operating point of a PV system. The proposed MPPT algorithm has been implemented by a dSPACE DSP controller. The experimental results show that the PV power...

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 presents a wide range maximum power point tracker (MPPT) using fuzzy logic controller for PV sizing and efficiency improvement. The MPPT consists of a buck boost converter, controlled by a fuzzy logic. The fuzzy has two inputs and single output. Inputs are voltage and current of the PV, while the output is duty cycle for the buck boost. The MPPT effectively tracks at average 97.3% of...

Among all the renewable resources, wind and solar are the most popular resources due to its ease of availability and its ease conversion into electricity. Each renewable resource uses DC/DC boost converter separately with MPPT control to generate power. To increase the efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) system and wind energy system, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technology is employed. ...

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, ...

This paper presents an efficient maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller for a standalone photovoltaic (PV) generation system. To achieve an efficient MPPT controller, a new boost converter design and an improved MPPT algorithm are incorporated. In the proposed boost converter design, a passive regenerative snubber circuit is included to absorb the energy of stray inductance so as to red...

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 study proposes and implements maximum power Point Tracking (MPPT) control on thermoelectric generation system using an extremum seeking control (ESC) algorithm. The MPPT is applied to guarantee maximum power extraction from the TEG system. The work has been carried out through modelling of thermoelectric generator/dc-dc converter system using Matlab/Simulink. The effectiveness of ESC techn...

Nowadays solar energy has great importance. Because it is easily available resource for energy generation. But the only problem is efficiency of solar system. And to increase its efficiency many MPPT techniques are available for use. Incremental conductance (INC) method is one of those well known MPPT techniques. Development of INC method using two-step model predictive control by employing art...