In solar photovoltaic (PV)-based DC microgrid systems, the voltage output of the classical DC–DC converter produces very less voltage as a result of poor voltage gain. Therefore, cascaded DC–DC boost converters are mandatory for boosting the voltage to match the DC microgrid voltage. However, the number of devices utilized in the DC–DC conversion stage becomes higher and leads to more losses. Thereby, it affects the system efficiency and increases the complication of the system and cost. In order to overcome this drawback, a novel double-boost DC–DC converter is proposed to meet the voltage in DC microgrid. Also, this paper discusses the detailed operation of maximum power point (MPP) tracking techniques in the novel double-boost DC–DC converter topology. The fundamental [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]–[Formula: see text] characteristics of solar photovoltaic system, operational details of MPP execution and control strategies for double-boost DC/DC converter are described elaborately. The proposed converter operation and power injection into the DC microgrid are verified through the real-time PSCAD simulation and the validation is done through the experiment with hardware module which is indistinguishable with the simulation platform.
The reported method of Equivalent transfer function(ETF) method for PI/PID decoupled controller design of multi-input multi-output square systems (Xiong, et al., 2007) is extended to non-square systems. This method is applied by simulation to Example considered by Ogunnaike and Ray (1994) given by 2×3 system. Simulation studies have been carried out for servo problem and regulatory problems. Robust performance (10% increase in each process gain, 10% increase in each time delay, and 10% decrease in each time constant) of servo problem and regulatory problem are also checked. The improvement of performance of non-square controller compared with that square controller is evaluated. The performance is evaluated in terms of ISE. Index Terms-ETF, decoupled controller, servo, non square, ISE and full dimensional controller matrix expressed by Eq. (1) and Eq. (2) respectively.
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