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.
| Methods | Parameter 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 method | Linearly decreasing: | (2, 2) | 100 | : 0.9; : 0.4 |
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