RESEARCH ARTICLE

Fractional order extremum seeking approach for maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic panels

  • Ammar NEÇAIBIA 1 ,
  • Samir LADACI , 2 ,
  • Abdelfatah CHAREF 3 ,
  • Jean Jacques LOISEAU 4
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  • 1. Research Unit in Renewable Energies in the Saharan Medium, CDEREPST, URER-MS, Adrar 01000, Algeria; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Skikda, Skikda 21000, Algeria
  • 2. Department of Electronics, Electrotechnics and Automatics, National Polytechnic School of Constantine, Constantine 25000, Algeria; SP-Lab Laboratory, Department of Electronics, University of Constantine 1, Constantine 25000, Algeria
  • 3. SP-Lab Laboratory, Department of Electronics, University of Constantine 1, Constantine 25000, Algeria
  • 4. Research Institute in Communications and Cybernetics, CNRS UMR 6597, 1 rue de la Noë 44321 Nantes, France

Received date: 20 Feb 2014

Accepted date: 15 Jun 2014

Published date: 02 Mar 2015

Copyright

2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Due to the high interest in renewable energy and diversity of research regarding photovoltaic (PV) array, a great research effort is focusing nowadays on solar power generation and its performance improvement under various weather conditions. In this paper, an integrated framework was proposed, which achieved both maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and minimum ripple signals. The proposed control scheme was based on extremum-seeking (ES) combined with fractional order systems (FOS). This auto-tuning strategy was developed to maximize the PV panel output power through the regulation of the voltage input to the DC/DC converter in order to lead the PV system steady-state to a stable oscillation behavior around the maximum power point (MPP). It is shown that fractional order operators can improve the plant dynamics with respect to time response and disturbance rejection. The effectiveness of the proposed controller scheme is illustrated with simulations using measured solar radiation data.

Cite this article

Ammar NEÇAIBIA , Samir LADACI , Abdelfatah CHAREF , Jean Jacques LOISEAU . Fractional order extremum seeking approach for maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic panels[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2015 , 9(1) : 43 -53 . DOI: 10.1007/s11708-014-0343-5

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