Single-Sensor Based MPPT for Photovoltaic Systems

Mohamed Amine ABDOURRZIQ, Mohammed Ouassaid, Mohamed Maaroufi

Abstract


Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques are most famous application in photovoltaic system to track the maximum power of the PV system. Usually, most of maximum power point tracking algorithms used fixed step and two variables: the photovoltaic (PV) array voltage (V) and current (I). Therefore both PV array current and voltage have to be measured.   The maximum power point trackers that based on single variable (I or V) have a great attention due to their simplicity and ease in implementation, compared to other tracking techniques. With traditional perturb and observe algorithm based on two variable (I and V)  using fixed iteration step-size, it is impossible to satisfy both performance requirements of fast response speed and high accuracy during the steady state at the same time. To overcome these limitations a new algorithm based on single variable method with variable step size has been investigated which has been implemented using fuzzy logic control.  The proposed method has been evaluated by simulation using MATLAB under different atmospheric conditions. The obtained results show the effectiveness of the proposed technique and its ability for practical and efficient tracking of maximum power.


Keywords


Maximum power point, Variable step size, Perturb and Observe, Fuzzy logic control, photovoltaic system, MPPT.

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