Hybrid two‐stage adaptive maximum power point tracking for stand‐alone, grid integration, and partial shaded PV system

Abstract

SummaryIn a PV array, the power‐voltage characteristic (P‐V) and output power are completely dependent on atmospheric conditions. Consequently, the P‐V curve's maximum power point (MPP) likewise changes significantly. This abrupt oscillation in the MPP may be caused by the PV panel being uniformly or partially shaded by trees, buildings, raindrops, and clouds. However, in both circumstances, the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) turns into a highly nonlinear issue with a time‐bounded solution. The unpredictable weather circumstances change P‐V characteristics after every short time interval. Therefore, this research presents a hybrid two‐stage adaptive MPPT to overcome the environmental uncertainties. The first stage is MPPT control block for determining reference voltage for each MPP and the second stage is modified model reference adaptive controller (MMRAC) block fine‐tunes converter duty cycle to maintain MPP of PV panel. The probabilistic evaluation is executed through four distinct levels of uncertainty, including stand‐alone, partially‐shaded, grid integration, and OPAL‐RT to examine the system robustness in diverse scenario. The possibility of the tracking failure caused by dynamic irradiance change is also verified. Moreover, efficiency, tracking ability, power loss, ripple, and error rate are compared with the state‐of‐the‐art strategies, that is, ANFIS, INC, P&O, and VSPO. The satisfactory performances of the new strategy under simultaneously varying irradiance, temperature, and load; partially shaded and grid integration shows the supremacy.