Multiobjective Optimal Design of Photovoltaic Synchronous Boost Converters Assessing Efficiency, Reliability, and Cost Savings

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1038-1048

  Adinolfi, Giovanna ^b   Graditi, Giorgio ^b   Siano, Pierluigi ^a   Piccolo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b Italian National Agency for New Technologies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed Maximum Power Point Tracking converters; Mean Time Between Failure; Multi objective optimization; NSGA II; Photovoltaic; Switching converters

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RELIABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; NSGA-II; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SWITCHING CONVERTER;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84944041055     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2015.2462805     Document Type: Article

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