Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS
Volume 46, Issue 6, Pages 2501-2510Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2010.2072975
Keywords
DC-DC power conversion; modeling; neural network (NN) applications; photovoltaic (PV) power systems; pole assignment
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This paper presents a simulator of a photovoltaic (PV) field where the current-voltage characteristic is obtained either with a fully analytical model or with a numerical model based on a growing neural gas (GNG) network. The power stage is obtained with a dc-dc buck converter driven by the current-voltage-irradiance-temperature relation of the PV array. The improvements introduced here, with respect to previous works, are the following: 1) the mathematical model is given as a continuous surface in the irradiance domain; 2) a relation between temperature and irradiance is obtained by least square regression method; 3) the thermal constant of the PV field is introduced; and 4) an experimental prototype of higher rating has been devised and constructed. For both approaches, a more performing control technique of the converter has been used. Finally, a PV simulator prototype is experimentally tested. Some criteria for a suitable choice between the proposed approaches and the benefits obtainable by the use of the GNG are put into evidence.
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