Design of intelligent Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique based on swarm intelligence based algorithms

Abstract

Main objective of this paper is to develop an intelligent and efficient Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique. Two most recently introduced and popular swarm intelligent based algorithms: Firefly algorithm (FA) and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) has been used in this study to develop a novel technique to track the Maximum Power Point (MPP) of a solar cell module. The performances of two algorithms in this context have been compared with other popular evolutionary computing techniques like PSO, DE and GA. Simulations were done in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment and simulation results show that proposed approach can obtain MPP to a good precision under different solar irradiance and environmental temperatures.