Implementation of Incremental Conductance Based MPPT Algorithm for Photovoltaic System

This paper deals with the hardware implementation of incremental conductance (IncCond) algorithm based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for a photovoltaic (PV) system using Arduino board. The considered system consists of a DC-DC Boost converter, a PV panel and a resistive load. Firstly, simulation tests using Matlab/Siumilink are provided and then experimental validation is conduced based on an Arduino uno and spatial Simulink package known as "support package for Arduino hardware". The simulation and experimental tests show the satisfied results of IncCond algorithm in terms of extraction of the maximum power point(MPP) form PV panel.