Real-Time Simulation and Research on Photovoltaic Power System basedon RT-LAB

摘要

The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller in the Photovoltaic system is the key to verify all kindsof MPPT control algorithms. But the development of actual controller has the defects of needing long periods, artificialcode writing and so on. RT-LAB real-time simulation platform is an advanced model-based engineering design and testapplication platform. The outstanding real-time performance in the current experimental study and engineering designmade it used more and more widely. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce its hardware and software structure and realtimeperformance in detail. This paper gave a comprehensive and systematic introduction to hardware architecture,software architecture and simulation process of RT-LAB. It also presented a semi-physical simulation experiment ofphotovoltaic system MPPT using the features of Photovoltaic MPPT and semi-physical Real-Time simulation technology.The MPPT control strategy is achieved by establishing model using Simulink package. Other parts of the main circuitwere physical circuit except controller. The parameter adjustment functions online of RT-LAB can easily optimizecontroller parameters. Two special tools ARTEMIS and RT-Events used in power electronics were described in detail.The RT-LAB software modeling standard was also illustrated. The testing results showed that the usage of RT-LAB forthe development of photovoltaic controller can resolve many problems in the current controller development. Theapplication of RT-LAB in photovoltaic systems provides a reference for the micro grid, smart grid and other real-timesystems.