Adaptive GA-based reconfiguration of photovoltaic array combating partial shading conditions

This paper concerns the study and simulation of a PV array self-organizing configuration. It introduces a new method to reconfigure the PV array using a genetic algorithm in order to maximize the output power as well as reducing the number of switching. The proposed method involves the simulation of a PV array composed of 16 panels 4 strings with 4 panels in series and associated parallel, as well as an algorithm that controls the improvement of...