The efficiency of a photovoltaic (PV) system under partial shading conditions (PSCs) is primarily determined by how the PV panels are connected to the load. Various PV system architectures have been developed to improve power processing capability and thus power conversion efficiency. In this article, a central and string architecture are considered, and the performance characteristics are obtained using optimization techniques such as gray wolf optimization (GWO) and flower pollination algorithm (FPA) in MATLAB/Simulink. The simulation results show that the performance characteristics of string architecture obtained using the GWO algorithm outperform central architecture with both GWO and FPA.
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