Multi-Criteria Evaluation of MPPT Algorithms under Time-Varying Partial Shading Using a Physics-Based PV Model
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Abstract
This work investigates how widely used MPPT algorithms perform under realistic, timevarying partial shading and aims to provide an objective, reproducible basis for multicriteria decision-making.We implement a 60cell module model (three substrings with bypass diodes) driven by a 10s mixed shading profile at 1ms resolution; an internal oracle computes the instantaneous global MPP solely for scoring.Performance is quantified by oracle-normalized energy, a formally defined time-to-sustain 95 , GMPP hit/dwell ratio, and a ripple/PRI; distributional behavior (histograms/CDF/boxplots), nonparametric inference (Kruskal-Wallis, Cliff's ), bootstrap confidence intervals, and a weight-transparent composite score (0.30 energy, 0.25 hit, 0.25 speed, 0.20 ripple) complement the analysis, with sensitivity/ablation on step sizes, swarm settings, attractiveness/L vy steps, and weights.Incremental Conductance achieves the highest energy (0.281 Wh), fast convergence ( 95 = 3.0 ms), the best hit ratio (62.8%), and the lowest ripple (41.4 W).PSO yields intermediate energy (0.231 Wh) but long convergence (206.2 ms), FP responds fastest ( 95 = 2.6 ms) yet records the lowest energy (0.094 Wh) and hit ratio (10.8%), and P&O is simple but ripple-prone (100.1 W) with lower energy (0.143 Wh).Despite universal large transient errors during regime changes (~220 W), distributional evidence and robustness checks consistently favor Incremental Conductance.The framework and metric suite offer reusable guidance for algorithm selection under partial shading and clarify when exploration latency or instability erodes net yield.
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