T. Hiyama et al., EVALUATION OF NEURAL-NETWORK-BASED REAL-TIME MAXIMUM POWER TRACKING CONTROLLER FOR PV SYSTEM, IEEE transactions on energy conversion, 10(3), 1995, pp. 543-548
This paper presents a neural network based maximum power tracking cont
roller for interconnected PV systems to commercial power sources. The
neural network is utilized to identify the optimal operating voltage o
f the PV system. The controller generates the control signal in real t
ime, and the control signal is fed back to the voltage control loop of
the inverter to shift the terminal voltage of the PV system to the id
entified optimal one, which yields the maximum power generation. The c
ontroller is a PI type one. The proportional and the integral gains ar
e see to their optimal values to achieve the fast response and also to
prevent the overshoot and also the undershoot. The continuous measure
ment is required for the open circuit voltage on the monitoring cell,
and also for the terminal voltage of the PV system. Because of the acc
urate identification of the optimal operating voltage of the PV system
, more than 99% power is drawn from the actual maximum power.