Model predictive control of interleaved dc-dc stage for photovoltaic microconverters

The development of different configurations and topologies implemented in photovoltaic (PV) plants have made possible the increase of efficiency of the system. The traditional configurations of grid-connected PV systems, centralized, string, multi-string and ac-module, have been analyzed and actually most of them are controlled using classic PI control. Furthermore, each of them has different efficiency values due to the inherent associated problems. The large-scale PV plants do not work properly when the modules do not work at the same conditions, for example when some atmospheric and environmental problems are involved, it reduces the reliability of the system. The traditional small-scale PV configurations have a low efficiency due to the dc-boosting stage in order to reach the grid levels. This work presents a grid-connected PV configuration, focused in the improve of the efficiency of the traditional ac-module configuration, a flyback topology for the dc-side and a H-bridge topology for the grid connection will be implemented. Moreover, the proposed control scheme is based on FCS-MPC algorithm.