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Hardware Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization based Solar MPPT Using PIC Microcontroller


J. Jeffine Bene, E. Malarvizhi and A. Sivasubramanian
Abstract

Nowadays, Renewable energy sources play a vital role in contributing to world’s energy consumption. Among the various sources photovoltaic power is considered as the potential alternative enough to meet the energy needs, due to its abundance and sustainable nature. To obtain the maximum power from the photovoltaic system Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based MPPT controller is designed. The system is implemented with the help of PIC microcontroller. Output power is measured under shading condition. The output received is almost constant irrespective of the irradiance pattern. The hardware MPPT framework using PSO proves to provide better optimization ability.

Volume 11 | 03-Special Issue

Pages: 1539-1545