Fig 1.
Representation of the proposed converter.
Fig 2.
Proposed converter equivalent circuit.
Fig 3.
Mode 2.
Fig 4.
Mode 3.
Fig 5.
Mode 4.
Fig 6.
Mode 5.
Fig 7.
Modes of operation.
Fig 8.
Losses of the proposed topology.
Fig 9.
Closed loop FOPID controller using MATLAB/Simulink model.
Table 1.
Design parameters of converter.
Fig 10.
Output voltage /current (open loop).
Fig 11.
Voltage across the switch.
Fig 12.
Voltage across C3 and C4.
Fig 13.
Current across inductor.
Fig 14.
Output voltage /current of the converter (FOPID controller).
Fig 15.
Bode plot.
Fig 16.
Proposed converter with PV panel.
Fig 17.
Equivalent circuit of a PV cell.
Fig 18.
Converter voltage and PV power with respect to varying irradiance.
Fig 19.
Voltage obtained from the converter.
Table 2.
Performance comparison.
Fig 20.
Efficiency comparison.
Fig 21.
Comparison of voltage gain vs duty cycle and voltages stress across switch vs duty cycle.
Table 3.
Duty cycle vs voltage gain.
Fig 22.
Electrical diagram model of proposed converter.
Fig 23.
Prototype model of converter.
Fig 24.
Converter output with controller (A) Input voltage waveform (B) Voltage across the switch (with Controller) (C) Output Voltage (D) Voltage across D1 and D2.