A three-phase NPC grid-connected inverter for photovoltaic applications using neural network MPPT

A Two-Stage Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for MPPT of Partially Shaded PV Arrays

“…Recent research in this area has seen the application of various artificial intelligence schemes, such as fuzzy logic controller (FLC) (Alajmi et al 2011;Bendib et al 2014) and neural network (NN) (Bendib et al 2014;Zhang and Bai 2008;Boumaaraf et al 2015;Arthishri et al 2014;Ngan and Tan 2016). Though these methods have been shown to be effective in dealing with the nonlinear characteristics of the I-V curves, they incur considerable computational cost (Ishaque et al 2012).…”

Multilevel DC-link converter photovoltaic system with modified PSO based on maximum power point tracking

“…The use of by-pass diodes has limited this problem, but power potentially available from by-passed cells is lost. Various control methods, such as such as perturb and observe (P&O) (Femia et al,2009;Killi and Samanta, 2015;Elbaset et al, 2016), Incremental conductance (IncCond) (Elgendy et al, 2012;Radjai et al, 2014;Li et al, 2016), hill climbing (HC) (Alajmi et al, 2011;Xiao et al, 2016), fuzzy logic (Messai et al, 2011;Letting et al, 2012;Cheng et al, 2015;Rezvani and Gandomkar, 2016), artificial neural network (ANN) ( Liu et al, 2013;Boumaaraf et al 2015;Lin et al, 2016;Messalti et al, 2017), particle swarm optimization (PSO) Cheng et al, 2015;Letting et al, 2012;Manickam et al, 2016;Renaudineau et al, 2015), sliding mode (Kim, 2007;Chu and Chen, 2009;Zhang et al, 2015;Mojallizadeh et al, 2016;Ouchen et al, 2016) and so on, have been proposed to enable optimal power generation from the chained PV strings with by-pass diodes and under partial shading conditions, but satisfactory solutions in terms of simultaneously maximizing the power generated and protecting the PV panels have still been a challenge (Rezk and Eltamaly, 2015;Chen et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016;Kumar and Chatterjee, 2016;Gupta et al, 2016).…”

A new balancing three level three dimensional space vector modulation strategy for three level neutral point clamped four leg inverter based shunt active power filter controlling by nonlinear back stepping controllers

“…Various multilevel inverters configurations are proposed and used in the harmonics elimination and reactive power compensation, such as the multilevel Cascade H-bridge Inverter [11][12][13][14], Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter [15][16][17], and the multilevel neutral-point-clamped (NPC) Inverter [18][19][20][21][22][23]. The NPC inverters are the most widely used topology and successfully employed in medium and high power applications in the harmonics elimination and reactive power compensation for electrical networks [18].…”