Abstract
Photovoltaic energy harvesting systems (PV systems) are subject to PV cell faults, which decrease the efficiency of PV systems and even shorten the PV system lifespan. Manual PV cell fault detection and elimination are expensive and nearly impossible for remote PV systems, e.g., PV systems on satellites. Therefore, online fault detection techniques and fault tolerance solutions are needed that can detect and tolerate PV cell faults without manual intervention. In this work, we present an online fault detection and tolerance technique for remote PV systems, which is capable of dynamically locating faulty PV cells and tolerating PV cell faults. More precisely, we present a modified PV panel structure and an efficient algorithm for our online fault detection and tolerance. Our fault detection and tolerance technique reduces output power degradation due to PV cell faults in a PV system by up to 81.31%.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 6386581 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, Digest of Technical Papers, ICCAD |
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| State | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2012 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, ICCAD 2012 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Nov 5 2012 → Nov 8 2012 |
Keywords
- Fault Detection
- Fault Tolerance
- Photovoltaic Panel Reconfiguration
- Photovoltaic System
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design