TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic arrays using ripple correlation control
AU - Esram, Trishan
AU - Kimball, Jonathan W.
AU - Krein, Philip T.
AU - Chapman, Patrick L.
AU - Midya, Pallab
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received May 11, 2005; revised November 29, 2005. This work was presented at the 27th Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC’96). This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant ECS-01-34208. Recommended by Associate Editor K. Ngo. T. Esram, J. W. Kimball, P. L. Chapman, and P. T. Krein are with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). P. Midya is with Freescale Semiconductor, Lake Zurich, IL 60047 USA. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPEL.2006.880242
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A dynamically rapid method used for tracking the maximum power point of photovoltaic arrays, known as ripple correlation control, is presented and verified against experiment. The technique takes advantage of the signal ripple, which is automatically present in power converters. The ripple is interpreted as a perturbation from which a gradient ascent optimization can be realized. The technique converges asymptotically at maximum speed to the maximum power point without the benefit of any array parameters or measurements. The technique has simple circuit implementations.
AB - A dynamically rapid method used for tracking the maximum power point of photovoltaic arrays, known as ripple correlation control, is presented and verified against experiment. The technique takes advantage of the signal ripple, which is automatically present in power converters. The ripple is interpreted as a perturbation from which a gradient ascent optimization can be realized. The technique converges asymptotically at maximum speed to the maximum power point without the benefit of any array parameters or measurements. The technique has simple circuit implementations.
KW - Maximum power point tracking (MPPT)
KW - Photo-voltaic (PV)
KW - Ripple correlation control (RCC)
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U2 - 10.1109/TPEL.2006.880242
DO - 10.1109/TPEL.2006.880242
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33947167222
SN - 0885-8993
VL - 21
SP - 1282
EP - 1290
JO - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
IS - 5
ER -