Automated procedure for calculating the controller parameters in photovoltaic DC/DC converters

International Review of Electrical Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3027-3040

  Gonzalez, D ^a   Ramos Paja, C A ^a   Petrone, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic controller calculation; Control systems; Grid connected; Photovoltaic systems; State space model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858045695     PISSN: 18276660     EISSN: 25332244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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