Photovoltaic module simulation by neural networks using solar spectral distribution

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1222-1235

  Piliougine, Michel ^a   Elizondo, David ^b   Mora López, Llanos ^a   Sidrach De Cardona, Mariano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

average photon energy; I V curve; multilayer perceptron; neural network; PV modeling; spectral distribution

Indexed keywords

I - V CURVE; KOHONEN SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; PHOTON ENERGY; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; TRAINING SAMPLE SELECTION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SAMPLING;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84881243022     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2209     Document Type: Article

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