Research Article
Sizing Control and Hardware Implementation of a Hybrid Wind-Solar Power System, Based on an ANN Approach, for Pumping Water
Table 5
Structures of the proposed ANN controllers.
| | System | 1st layer | 2nd layer | 3rd layer | Number of neurons | Activation function | Number of neurons | Activation function | Number of neurons | Activation function |
| 1 | Wind | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | — | — | Solar | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | — | — |
| 2 | Wind | 20 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | — | — | Solar | 20 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | — | — |
| 3 | Wind | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | Solar | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear |
| 4 | Wind | 30 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | Solar | 30 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear |
| 5 | Wind | 10 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear | Solar | 10 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Sigmoidal | 1 | Linear |
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