This project investigated the performance of various solar maximum power point tracking algorithms on a single hardware platform. It also developed a low-cost hardware platform including a rudimentary solar cell emulator circuit and a maximum power point tracker circuit to test these algorithms. Additionally, the project covered the development of the two software algorithms that were tested in the project: the ”Sweep” algorithm and the ”Perturb and Observe” algorithm.

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Creator

• Flynn, Andrew F
• Beauregard, Benjamin James
• Adams, Johnathan Werber

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030617-131157

Advisor

• Emanuel, Alexander E.

Year

• 2017

Date created

• 2017-03-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright