Research Article

Multicore PSO Operation for Maximum Power Point Tracking of a Distributed Photovoltaic System under Partially Shading Condition

Table 7

Performance of the proposed multicore PSO MPPT algorithm using LabVIEW.

PV panelPV formatCorePanel/coreAverage tracking stepsOverall accuracy, %Accuracy without shading, %Accuracy with shading, %Error without shading, %Error with shading, %

4PV4S1462.1697.6697.7297.561.361.28
4PV4S2240.8397.598.2596.371.312.52
4PV2P2S1460.1498.5398.4698.621.151.1
4PV2P2S2241.4799.0298.9299.170.780.47
8PV8S18142.795.6295.9895.091.121.59
8PV8S2472.2297.0297.1696.81.021.58
8PV8S4247.2996.4797.2995.241.531.49
8PV2P4S18138.2996.4896.8795.891.270.98
8PV2P4S2470.0197.8697.9197.790.80.9
8PV2P4S4246.7197.397.8796.451.191.35
12PV3P4S26133.8996.6796.9296.280.871.02
12PV3P4S3477.7297.5997.697.590.640.64
12PV3P4S6252.2197.0197.6596.040.970.98
16PV2P8S28180.7296.2296.2796.141.151.46
16PV2P8S4484.9297.1697.2397.060.640.6
16PV2P8S8255.7696.6797.5595.350.931.14
16PV4P4S28181.4296.4696.5396.351.031.12
16PV4P4S4484.2297.497.4797.310.590.54
16PV4P4S8255.8297.1297.7696.170.790.78