Maximum power point tracking system for stand alone solar PV power system using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System

Abstract

A Maximum Power Point Tracking controller for stand alone solar PV power system is presented in this paper. A solar PV power system consists of PV Module, DC-DC boost converter and an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) based MPPT controller is developed in MATLAB/Simulink. The operation of the DC-DC Boost converter in the PV system is controlled by ANFIS MPPT controller. The ANFIS model is trained using randomly selected data obatined for various temperature and irradiation levels. The cell temperature and irradiation level are the input to the controller and the output of the controller is duty cycle. The model is simulated for various weather conditions and the simulation results are obtained. Performance of proposed ANFIS MPPT controller is analysed by comparing its results with the PV systems without MPPT and PV systems with Incremental Conductance MPPT.