MPPT of PV Systems Under Partial Shaded Conditions Through a Colony of Flashi…

This paper reports the development of a maximum power-point tracking (MPPT) method for photovoltaic (PV) systems under partially shaded conditions using firefly algorithm. The major advantages of the proposed method are simple computational steps, faster convergence, and its implementation on a lowcost microcontroller. The proposed scheme is studied for two different configurations of PV arrays…