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Design and Realization of a Low-Cost and High Accurate Photovoltaic Emulator System Using Buck-Boost Converter


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/ireaco.v13i2.18597

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This paper presents a high-accuracy photovoltaic emulator system using DC-DC Buck-Boost converter. The realization of the emulator is carried out using an ATmega1280 microcontroller, allowing the emulation of photovoltaic modules in a low cost system with weather conditions defined by the user. A mathematical model based on straight lines model is built using MATLAB / Simulink in order to reproduce the solar current-voltage  characteristics and an appropriate control scheme to improve the performance of the emulator’ output. As a result, the output characteristics of the emulator are in good agreement with the ones of the actual solar panel in different weather and load conditions.
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Emulator; Buck-Boost Converter; Photovoltaic System; Mathematical Modeling

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