Maximum power point tracking control for photovoltaic generation using quasi-continuous sliding mode control

Abstract

This paper proposes a quasi-continuous sliding mode control for maximizing the power production of photovoltaic generation. The admittance-based maximum power tracking method is used for obtaining a reference and quasi-continuous sliding mode control is used for mitigating the chattering behavior to help Maximum power point tracking performance and its reliability. From simulation study using MATLAB/Simulink, we validated that the proposed method outperforms the previous method.