Microcomputer control of DC/DC converters for photovoltaic applications

Author

Peracaula, Juan ; Bordonau, Josep ; Canellas, Juan José

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tech. Univ. of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

1991

Firstpage

214

Abstract

Results obtained with an experimental system using microcomputer control of a Cuk converter fed from photovoltaic solar panels are presented. The control system maintains a constant output voltage regardless of the insolation and charge variations. Digital control has the advantages of avoiding reference values, ease of controller parameter adjustment, and the facility to cover a large number of working regimes of the solar panels and the DC/DC power converter. A proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithm is used for the converter. The PID parameters are easy to adjust from the user terminal keyboard and the output voltage can be fixed over a wide range of values

Keywords

digital control; microcomputer applications; photovoltaic power systems; power convertors; power system computer control; three-term control; voltage control; Cuk converter; DC/DC converters; PID parameters; constant output voltage; digital control; microcomputer control; photovoltaic applications; photovoltaic solar panels; proportional-integral-derivative algorithm; Circuits; Control systems; DC-DC power converters; Energy management; Industrial electronics; Microcomputers; Microprocessors; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrotechnical Conference, 1991. Proceedings., 6th Mediterranean

Conference_Location

LJubljana

Print_ISBN

0-87942-655-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MELCON.1991.161815

Filename

161815