PSO and P&O based MPPT technique for SPV panel under varying atmospheric conditions

Author

Suryavanshi, Rahul ; Joshi, Diwakar R. ; Jangamshetti, Suresh H.

Author_Institution

Basaveshwar Eng. Coll., Bagalkot, India

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents Particle Swarm Optimization and Perturbation & Observation techniques to find the optimum operating parameters of a solar photovoltaic panel under varying atmospheric conditions. The terminal voltage, current and corresponding duty-cycle, at which the DC/DC converter should be switched to obtain maximum power output, are determined. Simulation of maximum power point tracking of a DSP210 solar panel is done, using both methods, in MATLAB. It is observed from the results that the particle swarm optimization based algorithm can track the maximum power point for the whole range of solar data (irradiance and temperature) and has high conversion performance.

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; maximum power point trackers; particle swarm optimisation; perturbation techniques; photovoltaic power systems; DC/DC converter; DSP210 solar panel; MATLAB; P&O based MPPT; PSO; SPV panel; maximum power point tracking; particle swarm optimization; perturbation & observation techniques; solar data; solar photovoltaic panel; varying atmospheric conditions; Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT); Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); Perturb & Observe (P&O); Solar PV panel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power, Signals, Controls and Computation (EPSCICON), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thrissur, Kerala

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0446-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPSCICON.2012.6175270

Filename

6175270