Design of a photovoltaic simulator with a novel reference signal generator and two-stage LC output filter

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1331-1338

  Koran, Ahmed ^a   Sano, Kenichiro ^b   Kim, Rae Young ^c   Lai, Jih Sheng ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Analog control; Photovoltaic (PV) simulator; PV equivalent circuit; Two stage LC filter

Indexed keywords

ANALOG CONTROL; ANALOG CONTROLS; LC FILTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) SIMULATOR; TWO STAGE;

DESIGN; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REMOTE CONTROL; SIGNAL GENERATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIMULATORS;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 77952257290     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2009.2037501     Document Type: Article

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