An improved grasshopper-based MPPT approach to reduce tracking time and startup oscillations in photovoltaic system under partial shading conditions

• Muhammad Shahid Wasim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Shahid Wasim, Muhammad Amjad

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: shahid.wasim@iub.edu.pk (MSW); rasoola@ub.ac.bw, akhtar@sabanciuniv.edu (AR)

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1087-2481

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• Muhammad Amjad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Shahid Wasim, Muhammad Amjad

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-1759

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• Muhammad Abbas Abbasi ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ MAA, ARB and AR also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

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• Abdul Rauf Bhatti ,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MAA, ARB and AR also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9609-4563

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• Akhtar Rasool

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shahid.wasim@iub.edu.pk (MSW); rasoola@ub.ac.bw, akhtar@sabanciuniv.edu (AR)

  ¶‡ MAA, ARB and AR also contributed to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Botswana, Gaborone UB, Botswana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0018-3455

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