Design and development of maximum power point tracking algorithm using field programmable gate array

Abstract

To extract more power from the photovoltaic panel, it is required to track MPP maximum power points where maximum power will exist. In this work, MPP is tracked using perturb and observe algorithm which is implemented on high-speed Xilinx FPGA field programmable gate array Zedboard zynq. The perturb and observe algorithm has been designed in hardware description language Verilog using the Vivado software. The algorithm and hardware have been tested using current and voltage generated by PV module produced by a solar simulator. The main advantage of using perturb and observe algorithm is an easy implementation and using of FPGA is its high speed, the ability of parallel execution and user can program according to its application, hardware structure is not fixed.