System identification of photovoltaic system based on fractional-order model

Abstract

A fractional-order model of a photovoltaic (PV) system is proposed in this paper. The system identification approach is used to develop an effective dynamical model for a PV system. A real PV module and a boost converter are used to gather the experimental input–output data for the identification process. The black box modeling is applied to the system identification to obtain the transfer function, without the requirement to perform any mathematical analysis. The identification process is based on the least squares criteria for minimizing model output error, and the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm is used for optimizing the model parameters. The proposed fractional-order model (FOM) is investigated using MATLAB to study the frequency response and the model's stability. Simulation results verify the effectiveness and advantages of the FOM in comparison to identified integer-order model.