Title :
Improvement of hill-climbing method by constraining voltage operating point
Author :
Chin-Yew Tan ; Rahim, N.A. ; Selvaraj, Jeyraj
Author_Institution :
UM Power Energy Dedicated Adv. Centre UMPEDAC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
This paper proposed a modified hill-climbing method which enable fast convergence while maintaining ease of implementation. The hardware controller is constructed using low cost microcontroller to prove the simplicity of algorithm. Experiment result is presented and compared with conventional hill-climbing. Proposed method´s convergence time under different irradiances is shown and explained in detail.
Keywords :
microcontrollers; voltage control; fast convergence; hardware controller; irradiances; microcontroller; modified hill-climbing method; voltage operating point; Arrays; Conferences; Convergence; Microcontrollers; Photovoltaic systems; Testing; Voltage control; MPPT; buck-converter; hill-climbing; microcontroller; photovoltaic; solar power;
Conference_Titel :
Clean Energy and Technology (CEAT), 2013 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lankgkawi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3237-5
DOI :
10.1109/CEAT.2013.6775609
