Photovoltaic Cell Parameter Estimation Using Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization and Simulated Annealing

Muhammad Ali Mughal, Qishuang Ma and Chunyan Xiao
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Muhammad Ali Mughal: School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Qishuang Ma: School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Chunyan Xiao: School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Accurate parameter estimation of solar cells is vital to assess and predict the performance of photovoltaic energy systems. For the estimation model to accurately track the experimentally measured current-voltage ( I - V ) data, the parameter estimation problem is converted into an optimization problem and a metaheuristic optimization algorithm is used to solve it. Metaheuristics present a fairly acceptable solution to the parameter estimation but the problem of premature convergence still endures. The paper puts forward a new optimization approach using hybrid particle swarm optimization and simulated annealing (HPSOSA) to estimate solar cell parameters in single and double diode models using experimentally measured I - V data. The HPSOSA was capable of achieving a global minimum in all test runs and was significant in alleviating the premature convergence problem. The performance of the algorithm was evaluated by comparing it with five different optimization algorithms and performing a statistical analysis. The analysis results clearly indicated that the method was capable of estimating all the model parameters with high precision indicated by low root mean square error RMSE and mean absolute error MAE. The parameter estimation was accurately performed for a commercial (RTC France) solar cell.

Keywords: photovoltaic cell; parameter estimation; particle swarm optimization (PSO); simulated annealing (SA); hybrid PSOSA; metaheuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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