Development of Optimised Maximum Power Point Tracking Controller for Solar Photo-Voltaic Power Conversion System

This paper focuses on the development of optimised maximum power point tracking (MPPT) process for solar photo-voltaic (PV) and DC-DC boost converter-based energy conversion scheme. The method is more effective under multiple peaks of power-voltage characteristics of PV module, as the conventional MPPT fails to track the global peak of power. In this regard, Cuckoo Search (CS) based MPPT method is developed in software platform. The method exhibits higher efficiency for tracking the global peak than the conventional Perturb and Observe (P&O) MPPT technique. Furthermore, the hardware implementation of Cuckoo Search (CS) based MPPT method for production of switching pulses using the microcontroller (NucleoG474RE) is done, which is useful to drive the power converter in practice.