Research Article

Maximum Power Point Tracking Method Based on Modified Particle Swarm Optimization for Photovoltaic Systems

Table 1

Parameter settings for the two PSO methods.

MethodsParameter values
Weight ( )Learning factors ( )Maximum number of iterations

Conventional PSO method(i) 0.4 with module shading (2, 2)100
(ii) 0.7 without module shading
Modified PSO methodLinearly decreasing:  (2, 2)100
: 0.9;   : 0.4