Energy dispatch controllers for a photovoltaic system

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-261

  Venayagamoorthy, Ganesh Kumar ^a   Welch, Richard L ^a  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive critic design; Energy dispatch controller; Neural network; Photovoltaic; PV priority controller; Solar

Indexed keywords

ACTION DEPENDENT HEURISTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ACTION NETWORK; ADAPTIVE CRITIC DESIGN; ADAPTIVE CRITIC DESIGNS; CONTROL SIGNAL; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CRITICAL LOAD; ENERGY DISPATCH CONTROLLER; FEED-BACK LOOP; GRID-INDEPENDENT; MEASURING PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL CONTROL STRATEGY; OPTIMAL ENERGY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PV ARRAYS; RULE BASED; SYSTEM STATE; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 75749117046     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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