Energy Conversion and Management, Vol.52, No.7, 2695-2704, 2011
FPGA-based implementation of a fuzzy controller (MPPT) for photovoltaic module
This paper describes the hardware implementation of a two-inputs one-output digital Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) on a Xilinx reconfigurable Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) using VHDL Hardware Description Language. The FLC is designed for seeking the maximum power point deliverable by a photovoltaic module using the measures of the photovoltaic current and voltage. The simulation results obtained with ModelSim Xilinx Edition-Ill show a satisfactory performance with a good agreement between the expected and the obtained values. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.